Please go to this gallery of Aline’s photography to see wonderful photos of tigers that need all our help and support to survive the greedy predations of humans

Aline has mounted galleries of India,  her home country Scotland and other wonderful places

NEWS

Quick Look @ India is the first eBook on India and is available from www.quicklookbooks.com at £2.99. It covers the subject of India from pre history to the present day including history, peoples, cultures, customs, cuisines, early science and engineering, art, music, colonial history, the princes, freedom struggle, famous men and women past and present and modern India as she is today progressing as one of the great countries of the 21st century. This book can be read in about 90 minutes, can be down loaded into 50 pages of A4 and therefore is convenient to be read by people travelling or requiring information on India for business, diplomacy, politics, and educational purposes, as well as for serious travellers.

By the end of 2008 Aline’s first book India: The Peacock’s Call is to be republished, with a new Part II, published by Melrose Books which will be sold as a hard cover with an accompanying DVD of her photography set to evocative Indian music; both her second and third books are each sold with an inclusive similar DVD and were also published by Melrose Books www.melrosebooks.com and info@melrosebooks.co.uk tel: 00 44 (0)1353 646608 This will complete the circle of Aline’s writing about India and her Indian journeys in the decade between India’s 50th and 60th anniversaries of Nationhood..

The London Book Fair April 2009

Aline attended The London Book Fair in April 2009 when India was the Market Focus country. Aline can be seen in this photograph talking to Vikram Seth who was Author of the Day on that day – world famous for his Booker prize winning novel A Suitable Boy.

The Pride of India Gold Award Aline Dobbie received The Pride of India Gold Award on 9th November 2006 from The NRI Institute at a glittering banquet and ceremony in The Portman Hotel, London. Recipients of these awards are considered to have achieved something significant for India, the Indian Diaspora or Humanity in general. Aline feels privileged and honoured to have been considered eligible for the award and to have helped greater understanding and appreciation of India - the Land of her birth through her three books and her writing about India. The Non Resident Institute has chapters throughout the world in UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Singapore, Switzerland, Fiji, Madagascar, and Thailand.

Aline Dobbie has just returned from a wonderful journey around southern India encompassing Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu with all its wonderful historic treasures like Mamallapuram, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Madurai and Chennai. Aline writes "I went to lush and beautiful Kerala and visited Periyar Wildlife Reserve, Kannyakumari, Kovalam, Marari Beach, Lake Vembanad on a Spice Boat, Coconut Lagoon, Cochin -Kochi. From there I went to Karnataka and revisited Bangalore, Mysore, and then to Bandipur, Nagarahole and Kabini River Lodge to enjoy India's wonderful wildlife; wild elephants, working elephants, the dhole or wild dog which was a rare sighting; chital, sambar, peacocks, Indian rollers, gaur and a leopard but no tigers on this occasion - I had experienced ten tiger sightings in 2002! From the great wildlife parks I continued to Kodagu (Coorg) and stayed at Orange County Resort and then visited Halibidu and Belur near Hassan to see ancient Hoysala architecture and carvings, and then drove up to the wonderful old ruined city of Hampi - Vijaynagar near Hospet, the last incredible Indian Hindu Empire . I headed west to Badami and Pattadakal and on to Kali River Camp at Dandeli and finally ended in Goa at Majorda Beach but looked at all the interesting sights of Goa in the capital Panaji and old Goa.

Aline with Raju back home in Scotland

My journey started in Delhi with a visit to the Indian Parliament and the Rashtrapati Bhawan - the President of the Republic of India's magnificent palace in New Delhi. Humayan's Tomb, Safdarjang's Tomb, Qutb Minar, Dilli Haat, Teen Murti Bhawan and Gandhi Smriti were all visited as well, along with relaxation at The Imperial Hotel, The Maurya Sheraton Hotel and The Oberoi Hotel in the capital's five-star category. Delhi is looking beautiful in the spring and a walk in the Lodi Gardens and tea at the India International Centre was so enjoyable. The visit ended with the usual marvellously relaxing stay at Tikli Bottom just outside Delhi with good friends.

My third book India: The Elephant’s Blessing will be published in September 2006 by Melrose Books Ltd, and all three books will be exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2006. It is the third book in a trilogy of India along with India: The Peacock's Call and India: The Tiger's Roar. Incredible India!"

September 2006