William McKay Aitken

William McKay Aitken

William McKay Aitken (Bill Aitken ) is a Scottish born, naturalized Indian travel writer.cite web |url=http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/251215166.cms |title=Rail tourism needs to be put on track |publisher=The Times of India |author=Maneesh Pandey |date=2001-07-28 |accessdate=2008-07-16] 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
* "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)

References

Further reading

* [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030411/asp/opinion/story_1863653.asp Review of Footloose in the Himalaya By Bill Aitken, The Telegraph (India), , April 11, 2003 |]
* [http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/251215166.cms Maneesh Pandey. Rail tourism needs to be put on track. The Times of India, 28 Jul 2001.] Quotes Aitken as a travel writer.
*cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18200583_ITM|title=Silhouettes. Brief review of Sri Sathya Sai Baba: A Life|date=13 December 2004|work=The Statesman (India)|accessdate=2008-07-16

External links

* [http://www.shelfari.com/authors/126746/Bill-Aitken/summary Shelfari – Bill Aitken]


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