New Lives
54 Interviews with Westerners on their search for spiritual fulfilment in India
Compiled, Edited and Mainly Photographed by Malcolm Tillis
Vijayananda with Sri Anandamayi Ma
Melita Maschman in her dharamsala room
Brahmachari Gadadhar
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Bill Eilers and Swami Chidananda with view of the River Ganges
Simonetta at the lepper village
Swami Jnanananda Giri outside his simple hut
Bill Aitken being very Scottish
Brahmacharini Atmananda on her portch
Jamie Smith
Martha Smith and Sant Darshan Singh
Radheshwari with Sant Gulab Singh drying his hair in the winter sun
Omkara Das Adhikary with his wife and son
Gopi Jai Krishna with her son
Ellen Schector
Sri Pad Baba
The silent Radha Dasi
Pritam Singh Nagpal
Paul Ivan Hogguer in his guru's house
Giorgio Bonazzoli in his library
Anil Bhai with friends at his hospital for skin diseases
Russell Balfour-Clarke
The young J. Krishnamurti
Norma Sastri on her bicycle
Charan Das travelling
John Clarke in his enchanted garden
Peter Hoffman
Dhruva
Maggi Lidchi
The Aurobindo Mother
Sz. Regeni
Baruni
Michael Zelnick outside his elegantly simple house
David and Sally in their garden
Wilhelmina van Vliet in a timeless appartment
Norman C. Dowsett
Father Bede Griffiths entering his idyllic satsang space
Matthew and Joan Greenblatt
Lucy Cornelssen
Doris Williamson with her daily visitor
Lucia Osborne in the house she designed
Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi
David Godman
Hamsa Johannus de Reade in his secluded garden with superb view of sacred Arunachala
The very young Sathya Sai Baba
Joachim Peters and Uli Stechenreuter
Richard Willis
Mother Krishnabai
Chitrakara Das Adhikar in his office
Aviva Keller
Ma Prem Leela press-office supremo
Bhagwan Rajneesh
Swami Prem Pramod
Ma Ananda Vandana
Swami Anand Bodhisattva
Swami Nadamo
Sister Arati
Francis Reck at the Poona railway station
H.H. Giriraja Swami with his staff of office
Srila Swami Prabhupada
Jean Dunn in a quiet Bombay restaurant
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ram and Parvati Alexander at their wedding with Rukhmini Arundale
Raymond and Maree Steiner with H. H. Sakya Trizin
Bhikshu Ngawang Samten
Ani Tezin Palmo in a cosy tent
Kate Christie
Sant Kirpal Singh