Help recalling the name of a book on India

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Hello Book Forum,

Please help me recall the name of a book. Here are the clues!

Reader's Digest used to send out catalogs in India during 1980s and 90s with names and small pictures of books to buy. One such large-format hardcover book had an India theme - with very nice color pictures, glossy pages and a steel-gray front-board.

The book consisted of essays on different things - Harappa (with pictures of the famous bullock cart toy and the dancing girl), Indian food (the word I remember most is 'gosht' - from a section on the festival of Nowruz), Indian movies (had a picture of Sharmila Tagore from a Satyajit Ray movie), Sanskrit literature (with translated passages on Shakuntala) etc.

Anyone remember this book?

Thanks,

CV

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