India: Encounters With Time

India, the alluring country that will become the world's most populous nation in a few years, cherishes its ancient traditions but also steps unhindered into globalization. In no time it grows into an economic giant that wants to take back its long-forgotten position as a world power. At the same time it continues to struggle with third world problems.
In "India. Encounters with Time" Kris Peeraer travels to the ancient countryside, but also to megacities such as Mumbai and Bengaluru. He often stays at people's homes, with IT people but also with a yogi, and easily makes contact so that he can describe the human landscape from an intimate angle.
The caste system, religions, the political situation, marriage, poverty… everything takes shape in this cocktail of philosophy and adventure, devotion and blasphemy, old and new, east and west, escapism and social criticism.
As a young man, the author traveled through India, when it was still a magnet for hippies. Today he looks more soberly but still shows his old love for this country. The old, the new and the eternal India find their way into this story.