A Very Indian Christmas

Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, prayer, family gatherings, charity and other age-old traditions, some having evolved over almost two millennia. This anthology captures the distinctive magic of Christmas in India and in the Indian diaspora with a splendid collection of essays, poems and hymns-both in English and translated from India's other languages. It includes works by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Jerry Pinto, Damodar Mauzo, Vivek Menezes, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar and others writing about Christmas in Goa, Kerala, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, as well as London.