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Rupa Publications India AFTER THE DELUGE by Dominique Varma
Daniel, a French architect, and Nora, his artist girlfriend, enter the world of Nikolai Roerich, the Russian artist who made the Himalayan foothills in India his home While a painter of note, Roerich is also suspected to have been a double agent for the Americans and the Russians in India Nora and Daniel meticulously reconstruct the many expeditions undertaken by the Roerich family in Central Asia and uncover astonishing details of the rivalry between the Russian and British Empires for the control of Central Asia and Tibet