Published on : Monday, April 1, 2019
As part of this initiation, William will explore in and around the ‘City of Temples’, discovering shrines with tourists worldwide. Also, he will be visiting Buddhist circuit destinations like Udaygiri, Khandagiri and Ratnagiri followed by a visit to Konark temple.
The event is free and will remain opened to all. To quote Vishal K. Dev, IAS, Secretary, Odisha Tourism, “I would like to thank William for accepting our invitation to come over and explore the temples of Odisha with locals and tourists. I would encourage more and more people to join him in the trail.”
Dalrymple said, “I would like to thank Odisha Tourism for inviting me over. I can’t wait to return to one of my favourite states in India, and explore the magnificent temples and the exquisite cuisines of the state.”
William Dalrymple is the author of nine books regarding India and the Islamic world, including ‘City of Djinns’ (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Prize), ‘White Mughals’ (Wolfson Prize for History and SAC Scottish Book of the Year Prize), ‘The Last Mughal’ (Duff Cooper Prize and Vodafone Award for Non-Fiction) and ‘Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India’ (Asia House Literary Award).
Lately, he curated an important show of Mughal art for the Asia Society in New York, Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-42 was unveiled in 2012 and won the Hemingway and Kapuściński Prizes and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and PEN Hessel-Tiltman History Prizes. Back in 2016, he published a history of the Koh-i-Noor, co-written with Anita Anand.
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