Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern IndiaFrom the author of The Last Mughal (A compulsively readable masterpiece The New York Review of Books), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the regions rapid changea book that distills the authors twenty five years of travel in India, taking us deep into ways of life that we might otherwise never have known exist. A Buddhist monk