William McKay Aitken
William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken) is a Scottish born, naturalized Indian travel writer.[1] 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.
Works
- Seven Sacred Rivers, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-015473-6
- Divining the Deccan - A Motorbike to the Heart of India, (Oxford, 2002), ISBN 0-19-566350-0
- Footloose in the Himalaya, (Delhi, Permanent Black, 2003), ISBN 81-7824-052-1
- The Nanda Devi Affair, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-024045-4
- Touching Upon the Himalaya: Excursions and Enquiries, (Indus Books, New Delhi, 2004), ISBN 81-7387-169-8
- Exploring Indian Railways, (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1994), ISBN 97801956637618
- Branch Line to Eternity, (Penguin Books India), ISBN 0-14-100537-8
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba - A life, (Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.), ISBN 0-670-05807-6
- Riding The Ranges: Travels on My Motorcycle (ISBN 0-14-026804-9)
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