(When this chapter was excerpted in the Indian magazine Caravan, Deb and the magazine were promptly sued by Chaudhuri; thanks to an injunction, the Indian edition of the book has been robbed of its first essay).
A portion of the book ran in the February 2011 issue of The Caravan, an Indian magazine on politics and culture, and included a part of the first chapter, the subject of which is Arindam Chaudhuri.
With only a handful of aides and a couple of bodyguards, he stopped the caravan at an Indian village, Jechuyo Pamaya, to inspect a rudimentary dike system dug on a hillside under government direction.
(You can read more details at The Caravan and Mint, an Indian business newspaper).
Those live-a-little "Why not, honey?" moments when families invite you to dance next to their Ganesh Chaturthi caravans don't amount to "experiencing Indian culture".
Deserting his Syrian caravan, he then joined a group of Indian pilgrims on their way to India.
"The Argumentative Indian," a profile of the Congress Party minister Kapil Sibal in Caravan Magazine, traces his life from charismatic university student to the governing party's go-to guy when they need an attack dog.
It's Arnab Goswami, the head, the face, the voice of Times Now, an Indian English-language news channel, and the subject of Caravan magazine's latest profile, written by Rahul Bhatia.
It was hard to recall the New Mexico of salt caravans and Comanche raids, of colonial ambition and Indian revolts.
The area once contained oases that served as caravan towns on the trade route joining Mesopotamia and the Indian Ocean with the countries of the Mediterranean.
