Delhi: Adventures In Megacity, By Sam Miller
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Your support makes all the difference.Even the locals often don't like Delhi very much. They prefer the glamour of Mumbai or the culture of Kolkata to India's brash, harsh metropolis in a hurry.
Delhi resident and BBC staffer, Sam Miller chose the oddest way to evoke the eccentric charms and historic depths of his home town. He walked around it – and not just in straight lines, but in surreal spiral treks.
They take him and us from landfill site to Lutyens bungalow, plush suburb to reeking shanty-town, pirate software market to deserted Ridge, in engrossing routes that lead far beyond Chandni Chowk or Connaught Place.
The outcome is a uniquely revealing travelogue, closer in spirit to WG Sebald and Iain Sinclair than the usual nostalgia-fest or trend-hunting of Britons' books about India.
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