William Dalrymple reveals the secrets of the Golden Road

On Thursday at 6:30 pm at the Triennale in Milan, writer William Dalrymple (pictured) will take the stage to present his book " The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World " ( Adelphi ). He will be in conversation with Stefano Salis. Among the greatest historians of South Asia, Dalrymple is the first to give a name to the imaginary network of ports, itineraries, and maritime routes that for centuries connected monsoon-ridden India to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean basin on one side, and to Indochina and the South China Sea on the other: the Golden Road . A definition that rescues from oblivion a concrete and documented historical reality, but one that has long remained overshadowed by the more famous Silk Road. It is no coincidence that for over a millennium, since 200 BC, India has been one of the great engines of civilization in the ancient world.