Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, has returned to Sri Lanka, a land steeped in culture and tradition, to investigate organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. This is a story of love, family, and identity, set in a country torn apart and ravaged by civil war.

An account of the author's first visit to India. This book describes the author's arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, when he began to experience a sense of cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It provides a revelation of India and of the author.

A book about the author's travels around the Siberia.

The fourth book from the most acclaimed and gifted young travel writer of his generation, author of the best-selling In Xanadu, City of Djinns and From the Holy Mountain.

This is the story of an obsessive search for the perfect Buddha statue during a visit to Nepal. In the backstreets of Kathmandu, the author discovers more than he bargained for, and his souvenir-hunting turns into an ironic metaphor for the clash between spiritual riches and material greed.

The world wants to know what contemporary India is all about. The world's largest democracy, it still practices the caste system. It's a burgeoning economic superpower, and one of the poorest nations on earth. This title discusses the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population.