In Immersions: Bombay/Mumbai, Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves an elegant narrative around the ever-pulsating metropolis – India’s financial capital – accompanied by Christopher Taylor’s fascinating photographs that complement the text. Readers receive a fresh experience of Mumbai – layered with pungent edginess, abundant human stories, ruin versus new rooting and its throbbing – often decomposed – corporeality. The cross genre book – memoir, travelogue, investigation, poetic expositions all perfectly blended – maps several rhythms of time as the author and photographer travel round the city. Unexplored precincts, high-rises and heritage villages, poignant stories from the streets, the city’s history and the illusory yet surreal Bollywood images come to the fore, outlined by the city’s inequality, demographics and vitality in the stimulating prose and fabulous photographs – ruminating on the flow of life in a cruel yet captivating city. Contents: Introduction; Concrete to Basalt; Mosaics of Movement; Tides; Transport: Movements Seen and Unseen; Tales of Migrants; Money; South to North: From Old to New; Immersions; Mills to Malls; Holy Trinity: Bhuleshwar-Kalbadevi-Madhav Baug; Mazagaon; Dadar & Matunga: Once Bombay’s Suburbs, Now Central Mumbai; Behind Bollywood; Urban Forest; Cab ride through; Bombay/Mumbai; Notes; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements.

The East has been for centuries, or perhaps forever, the holy, the sacred, the source of life. Not only does the sun rise in the East, so does a Gautam Buddha. The East has produced thousands of mystics. Just as the West has produced great scientists, the East has produced great explorers of one’s being. The East attracts the seeker, almost like a magnet. Mystics of the East is a compilation of Osho’s discourses on some of the Enlightened Masters who were born in the East: Atisha, Baul mystics, Boddhidharma, the Buddha, Chuang Tze, Kabir, Lao Tzu, Mahakashyap, Nansen, Patanjali and Tilopo. Contents: Introduction Atisha Baul Mystics Bodhidharma Gautama the Buddha Chuang Tzu Kabir Lao Tzu Mahakashyap Nansen Patanjali Tilopa

The culmination of five years’ travel with Indian pilgrims, Nostalgia for Eternity takes the reader into the depths of millennia-old spiritual and mystic traditions. It is a stunning visual poem about the timeless human search for transcendence and ultimate truth. Translated literally from the Greek, ‘nostalgia’ means homesickness; spiritually, it is the universal longing for existential peace and completeness – for a final resolution of all life’s conflicts and contradictions. ‘The truth is one,’ taught India’s ancient gurus, ‘the sages call it by many names.’ With breadth and insight unmatched by any other publication, Nostalgia for Eternity illustrates the worlds of pilgrims seeking that transcendent truth and illuminates the different paths that they travel. Through evocative, complex images we enter the secretive realm of Tantric worshippers of the Mother Goddess; and we walk with Sufi pilgrims across the deserts of Rajasthan. Meditative, richly layered photographs reveal the inner world of Bengali Bauls – mystics who worship the human being; and of Sidis – descendants of African saints whose religion merges African ancestor worship with Sufism. Richly annotated text reveals to the reader the deeper symbolic and mythological significance of the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and syncretic practices explored in the book.

Zorba is not separate from Buddha. The West is not separate from the East. In fact, any form of materialism that has no values of spirituality is going to be very mundane, profane and ugly. It will not have any flights to the open sky towards the stars. It will not flower and release its fragrance; it will be just a rock. Spiritualism without materialism may have beautiful values but it is without foundations. It may create great palaces reaching to the stars, but without foundations these palaces can only be hallucinations, they cannot be real. Zorba the Buddha comprises of a selection made from Osho’s discourses on the synthesis of materialism and spiritualism, the Zorba and the Buddha. Contents: Preface; The Ultimate Synthesis; I Proclaim Homo Novus; We Have to Create Zorba the Buddha; I am Pregnant with the Authentic Religion; Zorba the Buddha is Humanity’s Future; The Whole Man is the Only Holy Man There Is; Only a Pagan can Become a Buddha; An Enlightened Man is Free; The Buddha is the Peak the Zorba is the Foundation; The World Needs Only One Kind of Man: Zorba the Buddha; Without Zorba there is no Buddha; I Have Called the New Man Zorba the Buddha; Zorba is Playfulness, Buddha is Reverence; Only a Zorba can be a Buddha, and only a Buddha can be a Zorba; Zorba Has To Become Buddha; Zorba is the Beginning, Buddha is the Fulfillment; In You the Synthesis is Happening; Zorba is Only the Beginning; Meditation is the Bridge between Zorba and Buddha; Zorba is Love, Buddha is Awareness; My Whole Effort is to Create the New Man as Zorba the Buddha; Zorba the Buddha is the New Man; I have joined Zorba and Zen; Epilogue .