William McKay Aitken

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William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken ) is a Scottish born, naturalized Indian writer and traveller. He is the author of a number of books about India, its mountains and its spiritual core.

Bill Aitken studied comparative theology at the University of Leeds and hitch-hiked to India in 1959. Ever since, he has undertaken various trips around and across India, on motorbikes and steam railway, through India's Deccan and around Nanda Devi. Bill Aitken's writings are characterized by a free-wheeling description of his travels, interspersed with intimate details of the land and its people, and their religious beliefs.

He lives in the hill station of Mussoorie in the Lower Western Himalaya; the surrounding region has provided much of the material for his writings. He is the long-time companion of Prithvi Bir Kaur, the widowed former Maharani of the erstwhile Sikh princely state of Jind.

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