Delhi: Adventures In A Megacity (PB)

‘A book that is as eccentric and anarchic as its subject’-William Dalrymple In this extraordinary portrait of one of the world’s largest cities Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi a city he describes as being ‘India’s dream town- and its purgatory’. He treads the city’s streets including its less celebrated destinations-Nehru Place Pitampura and Gurgaon-places most writers ignore. His encounters with Delhi’s people from rag pickers to members of the Police Brass Band create a richly entertaining portrait of what the city is and what it is becoming. Miller is like so many of the people he meets a migrant in one of the world’s fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity he has an infallible eye for life’s diversities for all the marvelous and sublime moments that illuminate people’s lives. This is a generous original humorous portrait of a great city one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane the unsung and the unfamiliar.