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Friday, 28 November 2008

books

Following a recent visit back home to my parents, i was able to increase the size of my books library by a couple of new issues, one book my mother brought me as she thought it would be of great help. She wasn't wrong so i included it in my research. The other book is a Comic book written by Deepak Chopra and published by Virgin comics, a company which has a range of comic books infused with Indian culture. This comic follows a similar theme to my own idea in that it is set during the era of colonial India and is written from an Indian perspective, it conveys the attitudes the Indians had against the English oppressors and the resistance put up by the people. It also has some very beautiful images of the hindu goddess Kali in all her fury. I found the Images to be of very useful reference and the issues about 'sorcery' and the supernanur



The other book my mom brought me as she thought it would be of great help. She wasn't wrong so i included it in my research. It was called Indian Style and featres a great variety of modern photographs showing interior, exterior and landscape environments around northern India. These will be very useful when i come to do my environements, even though my setting is during the nineteenth century, some of the more recent looking photographs may give a sort of futuristic feel, adding a flare of science fiction.





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