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• Fleeting Images from India
  This is a Slovene diplomat-researcher’s account of the first impressions of India upon landing in Bombay in the 1930s. These chapters form part of the first secular, book-length, personal account of the subcontinent to be published by a Slovenian. Teeming with ‘facts’ and impressions related in rich, poetic language, the following excerpts reveal a mind at work that strives to make sense of things against all odds. The voice tends towards all-knowingness and the tone is a mixture of surprise, indignation, derision and, occasionally, admiration and joy.
• A Turkish Professor at Delhi Customs
  Translation of an excerpt from the Turkish-Cypriot sociologist and historian Niyazi Berkes’s “Letters from Asia,” which recounts his experiences in Delhi on the way to Aligarh Muslim University, where he was heading as a visiting professor.
• Delhi: The Last Capital of the Turkish Rulers
  Translation of a major Turkish journalist and politician’s report of his sojourn in Delhi.
• V imenu Gospodovem (In the Name of the Lord)
  The translation consists of excerpts from a travelogue by Slovene Jesuit missionary Stanko Poderžaj, originally published serially in eleven installments of Katoliški misijoni, Ljubljana. The chosen passage concerns the author’s visit to the Kalighat temple in Calcutta.
• ‘Alleen de haat is reëel’ (‘Only the hate is real’)
  Translation of an article titled “Wat is de kleine wereld groot! ‘Alleen de haat is reëel’” (How big is the small world! ‘Only the hate is real), published in the Belgian Catholic newspaper De Standaard, on January 9, 1958.
• Dwars door Britsch-Indië (Across the British East Indies)
  Translation of an article published in the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd, on January 18, 1930.