Putumayo World Music has ventured into publishing with a lavish photo book called India: A Cultural Journey, with identical cover art.

For the last 16 years, the New York record label has been compiling album collections with an ear for voice, melody, instrumentation and the kind of quality sound production that helps deliver its guarantee "to make you feel good." AR Rahman, in news for Slumdog Millioniare, appears on the company's latest release, India, sharing vocals with female Bollywood star Chinmayee on the love ballad Tere Bina, from Rahman's soundtrack to the 2007 film Guru.

The book features more than 300 photos from all over India by Laurence Mouton and Sergio Ramazzotti, grouped by such subjects as "The Taste of Tea" and "Indian Pink and Saffron Yellow." Travel writer Catherine Bourzat provides the text.