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Capital - A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi
Title:
Capital - A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi
Dasgupta, Rana
$25.00

At the turn of the 21st century acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in the Indian capital with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him - he ‘fell in love and in hate with it’- and, 14 years later, Delhi has become his home. Capital tells the story of Delhi’s journey from walled city to world city. It is a story of extreme wealth and power, of land grabs and a cityscape changed almost beyond recognition. Everything that was slow, intimate and idiosyncratic has become fast, vast and generic; every aspect of life has been affected - for the poor, the middle classes and the super-rich. Through a series of fascinating personal encounters Dasgupta takes us inside the intoxicating, sometimes terrifying transformation of India’s fastest-growing megacity, offering an astonishing ‘report from the global future’...

Second hand Trade Paperback
Stock: 
1
ISBN: 
9781922079312
SKU:
46636