Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based journalist from San Francisco, California, reporting news from Asia since 1978 and winner of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondent's Award. This book elaborates on his published dispatches from Tibet, India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and New York. These stories portray fragments of people and their distant voices, mixed with unique and rare events. Slices, starting at random moments and ending in bleak locations. Many of these transcribed handwritten notes, impressions and exclusive interviews have never appeared in print until now.
Chapter 1 ~ Rituals
Sky Funeral Vultures in Tibet
The Dalai Lama & the Dead
Holy Sadhus in India & Nepal
Calcutta's Dom Caste Undertakers
Chapter 2 ~ Killers
Jampa Phuntsok & Tibet's Armed Rebellion
Tony "Poe" Poshepny, CIA in Laos
James "Mule" Parker, CIA in Vietnam
International "Bikini Killer" Charles Sobhraj
India's "Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi
Jonathan "Jack" Idema in Kabul
Chapter 3 ~ Wars
Americans, Soviets & Mujahideen in Afghanistan
India's Kashmir
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Chapter 4 ~ Sex
Peri, a New York Stripper
Michelle, in Peepland on 42nd Street
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