Capital A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi |
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Author:
| Dasgupta, Rana |
ISBN: | 978-1-922079-31-2 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $34.99 |
Book Description:
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At the turn of the twenty-first 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, fourteen 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....
More DescriptionAt the turn of the twenty-first 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, fourteen 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'.