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Updated On: 26 November, 2009 08:10 AM IST | | Shweta Shiware
That's what a scrapbook of pictures and memories of some of the most famous travellers to have visited the country, says, and in a good way. Pick up a copy of To India With Love: From New York to Mumbai, and contribute to a terror attack charity, says Shweta Shiware
That's what a scrapbook of pictures and memories of some of the most famous travellers to have visited the country, says, and in a good way. Pick up a copy of To India With Love: From New York to Mumbai, and contribute to a terror attack charity, says Shweta Shiware
"Ask any traveller who has been to India, and they'll tell youu00a0- it is like no other place in the world. The land and its people jolt every one of your five senses and stay in your heart forever," says a press release to announce the launch of To India with Love: From New York.
The personalities who find a home in the book, are sure to nod at that one. A scrapbook that holds photographs and memories of the most famous travellers who visited India, To India With Love... will be released on December 1 at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai's landmark 5-star which was worst hit in the 26/11 terror attacks.
Somewhere in the thundering gunshots and cloudy smoke of a hurled grenade, we lost confidence in the country and the people who promised to take care of it. But here's a book that tries to put back a sunshine smile on our faces when we think "India".
This pictorial dedication put together by Waris Ahluwalia, Tina Bhojwani, and Mortimer Singer, slicesu00a0 geographical and professional divides to bring some of the most famous faces from India and Hollywood to express what makes this country unique.
And so, you have Hollywood star Owen Wilson precariously balancing atop an elephant on his way home from shooting Darjeeling Limited in Udaipur one day, while his mother photographed him. "Come to think of it, the whole country seemed like a movie set, where you see something new and unexpected at any time or place.
I'll never forget it, and if what they say on elephants is true, I guess, he won't either," says Wilson, who starred in Marley and Me, Wedding Crashers and Zoolander.
"Ask any traveller who has been to India, and they'll tell youu00a0- it is like no other place in the world. The land and its people jolt every one of your five senses and stay in your heart forever," says a press release to announce the launch of To India with Love: From New York.
The personalities who find a home in the book, are sure to nod at that one. A scrapbook that holds photographs and memories of the most famous travellers who visited India, To India With Love... will be released on December 1 at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai's landmark 5-star which was worst hit in the 26/11 terror attacks.
Somewhere in the thundering gunshots and cloudy smoke of a hurled grenade, we lost confidence in the country and the people who promised to take care of it. But here's a book that tries to put back a sunshine smile on our faces when we think "India".
This pictorial dedication put together by Waris Ahluwalia, Tina Bhojwani, and Mortimer Singer, slicesu00a0 geographical and professional divides to bring some of the most famous faces from India and Hollywood to express what makes this country unique.
And so, you have Hollywood star Owen Wilson precariously balancing atop an elephant on his way home from shooting Darjeeling Limited in Udaipur one day, while his mother photographed him. "Come to think of it, the whole country seemed like a movie set, where you see something new and unexpected at any time or place.
I'll never forget it, and if what they say on elephants is true, I guess, he won't either," says Wilson, who starred in Marley and Me, Wedding Crashers and Zoolander.
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