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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... word which here has the implication that people make friends only because of their ability to assist them in climbing a particular social or career ladder. Some of that was (and is) true, but it was also, as I now realize, a partial and ...
... word for someone who wanders aimlessly through cities, a flaneur. While the early English romantics devoted themselves to rural idylls, nineteenth-century French poets took a greater interest in urban life. Baudelaire, in his Spleen de ...
... words about Delhi were proudly inscribed on the wall of the Emperor's audience chamber. But just sixty years later, with the Mughal Empire in decline, the Persian Emperor, Nadir Shah, plundered Delhi, killing as many as one hundred and ...
... words 'Proud to be Indian'. I take a picture, setting off my flash by mistake and waking him. He grants me an embarrassed smile, makes himself comfortable and goes back to sleep, hand on groin. Morning cricketers — affluent teenagers ...
... word, not the first, was misspelled. In the narrow service lane, there are reserved parking spaces, marked out in white paint, for the chairman and the managing director of DSIDC — which reveals itself, in a much smaller font to be the ...