Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi
Rana Dasgupta, "Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi"
ISBN: 085786002X, 1922079316 | 2014 | EPUB/MOBI | 455 pages | 1 MB/1 MB
Capital is a compelling biography of a critically important megacity, and the effects of sudden and all-consuming capitalist transformation.
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. 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'.