Book
To India With Love From Hollywood
Sohini Chattopadhyay
Sohini Chattopadhyay
19 Nov, 2009
To India With Love is a tribute wrapped in Hollywood star dust to mark the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack anniversary.
It’s a tribute wrapped in Hollywood star dust to mark the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack anniversary. Luxury publishing house Assouline Publications (they have boutiques, not stores) is bringing out To India With Love, a special edition book, with contributions from Oscar winners Adrien Brody and Anjelica Huston, star Natalie Portman, industrialist Mukesh Ambani, director James Ivory and other big-ticket names. Brody has contributed photographs he took at Narlai, Rajasthan, in 2006 while Anjelica Huston has an interesting story. One evening, on her way back from a Jain temple at Ranakpur, Rajasthan, she saw hundreds of monkeys, each with one carrot clasped in their hands. That, to her, is the perfect picture of democracy. Natalie Portman has a tale of street dogs nursing an injured dog to health in Udaipur, while Mukesh Ambani has an ode to Mumbai. The book, edited by Tina Bhojwani, Mortimer Singer and Waris Ahluwalia, is available for $49.99 at Variety Book Depot in Delhi’s Connaught Circus. Proceeds go to the Taj Public Service Welfare Trust.
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