Delhi: Adventures in a MegacityA provocative portrait of one of the world's largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the conventional travelogue |
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... modern Delhi. But it is through his encounters with Delhi's people — from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of a police brass band — that Miller creates this richly entertaining portrait ...
... modern Delhi, was the highlight of that visit — indeed just about the only thing I remember liking about the city. On that first visit, I had just come, bedazzled, from Calcutta, where I had traipsed the streets, paddling through late ...
... modern. It still has its majestic, scattered ruins that, for me, equal those of Rome or Athens or Cairo. But it has largely lost the parochial quality I remember from the 1990s. Today, Delhi makes the city of my birth, London, feel ...
... modern, forward-looking. They had seaports, they were largely British-built, colonial creations. They had become great trading cities. Delhi — six hundred miles from the nearest port — was a fossil, an open-air museum of Indian history ...
... modern city, as if it were just some period-piece. Its contemporary reputation in India is as a place where people suffer lesser evils: power cuts and gastric flu, water shortages and road rage. It has become a cliche to describe Delhi ...