Capital: A Portrait of Twenty First Century Delhi BOOK
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The boom following the opening up of India's economy in the early 1990s plunged its capital city into a tumult of destruction and creation, slums and markets were bulldozed or burnt down and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins or upon agricultural land taken over in the interests of business and modernization. Immense fortunes were made and in the glassy stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people from the rural hinterland streamed into the newly formed 'National Capital Region' looking for work, which they often found constructing, cleaning or guarding the homes of the increasingly affluent middle class. The transformation of the city was stern, abrupt and unequal and it gave rise to new and bewildering feelings. Delhi brimmed with ambition and rage. Bizarre crimes stole the headlines. In his first work of non-fiction, Rana Dasgupta shows us this new Delhi through the eyes of its people. With the lyricism and empathy of a novelist, he takes us through a series of encounters with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts which plunge us into the city's intoxicating and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation.
About the Author:- Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta is the bestselling author of Tokyo Cancelled and Solo.Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India.His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was short...more
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Author | Rana Dasgupta |
Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication Year: | 2014 |
ISBN: | 978-9350297933 |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Number of Pages: | 496 Pages |
Book Type: | Non Fiction Book |
Width: | 4.90 inch |
Height: | 0.63 inch |