"Dalrymple remains without peer"
--- Sara Wheeler, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

'William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India ... He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.'
--- Robert Twigger, Spectator

"Dalrymple is amazingly gifted ... Not content with analysis, he is mad enough to interview many of the armed and dangerous people who are hell bent on leading India into the Age of Kali, the era of destruction and darkness. The result is reportage of the highest order ... Brilliant and persuasively frightening."
--- Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday

"The most admired young travel writer in Britain today is the industrious and preternaturally talented William Dalrymple, without whose presence all prize-lists seem grotesquely naked. With The Age of Kali he has pulled it off again ... Witty and eagle-eyed, Dalrymple is, above everything, a fine observer and reporter."
--- Michael Thompson-Noel, Financial Times, Books of the Year

"Fascinating ... Dalrymple hasn't just swarmed around South Asia visiting architectural ruins and interviewing relics of the Raj. He has also gone to places that few, if any, tourists will ever see, sometimes at considerable personal risk. Here he reprises some brilliant reportage from these unorthodox journeys and includes a series of penetrating profiles .. The Age of Kali is far from uncritical, but as Dalrymple says, "it is a work of love". Again and again he summons perfectly modulated prose - comic, tragic, ironic by turns - to evoke his passion."
--- Katherine Frank, Literary Review