India with Sanjeev Bhaskar Audiobook (Free)

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and article writer behind ‘The Kumars at No. 42’ embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through contemporary India. Sanjeev’s quality humour and unique perspective type the heart of the audiobook that accompanies his moves for the BBC2 series.

Exotic and different, richly colourful and intriguingly complicated – India is one of the many exciting countries to visit in the world today. Sanjeev Bhaskar of ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ and ‘The Kumars at No. 42’ , grew about India with Sanjeev Bhaskar up in 70s surburban western London, therefore his regular family members trips to India to find out his relatives provided him an countless fascination for its bizarre contradictions. Right now Sanjeev is going back with a BBC film team to delve deeper into why is this country such a compelling phenomenon.

As Sanjeev travels from Delhi to Bombay, Jaipur to Calcutta, he matches ordinary and incredible Indian folks from every background, and brings his normal warmth and feeling of humour to these encounters. Although frequently baffled from the eccentricities of India, our endearingly good-natured guideline never fails to discover humour in these circumstances.

‘Sanjeev’s India’ is also a personal trip as Sanjeev satisfies old relatives who reveal their shifting and frequently traumatic tales of India’s turbulent and bloody past, and involves understand a little more about his very own roots.

During his trip Sanjeev can be invited to a middle-class wedding in Delhi aswell as witnessing the poverty from the slums in the Calcutta backstreets. He wryly observes the polo-playing Maharajah jet-set in Jaipur as well as the kitsch of Bombay Bollywood, and experiences the Ganges lit up with a million floating candles for the historic ritual of Diwali and the majestic colonial structures of the English Raj.

With this engaging and thoughtful travelling companion, we come across ourselves going beyond the clichés to reveal a country steeped ever sold yet at the forefront of new technology, at once confusing, astonishing and jaw-droppingly beautiful.