Mark Tully is incomparable, No foreign commentator has greater understanding of the passions, the contradiction, the charms and the resilience that constitute India. In India in Slow Motion Tullu and his colleague Gillien Wright delve further than ever before into This nation of over one billion people, attempting to unravel a culture that famously has always resisted unravelling.  

Not a word passed between them as they strode towards the town of Orcha with its temples to visit and its sacred river to bathe in. These were peaceful pilgrims, they carried peacock feathers as robed for rejoicing, with cowbells tinkling on their cross-belts, while round their Waists gaudy green and red pom-poms bounced. Some wore vests embroidered with rosettes, and some pointed multicolored clowns' hats. There would have been loud praising of their gods too had this not been the end of a week of abstinence when not a word was to be spoken. The men of the villages of Bundelkhand, a region of central India, were on their way to celebrate one of their immemorial festivals when their silence was broken by the wail of a siren.