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City Improbable Writings R E
Author | : Khushwant |
Publsiher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Delhi (India) |
ISBN | : 9780143415329 |
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‘Delhi is the twin of pure paradise, a prototype of the heavenly throne on an earthlyscroll’—Amir Khusrau A city of contradictions, where ancient traditions and modern aspirations jostle for space, Delhi has often been compared to a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its three thousand years of eventful history have witnessed the rise and fall of several empires, a process that continues today. City Improbable brings together writings by immigrants, residents, refugees, travellers and invaders who have engaged with India’s capital over different epochs. Babur shares his earliest experience of the city and Amir Khusrau praises the fine lads of Delhi; Ibn Battuta and Niccolao Manucci record the glories and follies of prominent rulers; William Dalrymple and Khushwant Singh provide intriguing accounts of the threshold period that saw the coming of the British and the waning of the Mughals. Poets and storytellers—Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, Yashpal, Kamleshwar, Ruskin Bond—narrate their versions of the city. Contemporary Delhi is featured in a variety of vignettes: the bureaucracy, the Emergency, the anti-Sikh violence, lovers and joggers in Lodi Gardens, the city’s Sufi legacy as well as its changing cuisine. Among the new pieces in this expanded edition are Sam Miller’s account of his experiences in the suburb of Noida, Manto’s story about a girl from Delhi leaving the city during Partition, Jarnail Singh’s unflinching recollection of the massacre of Sikhs in 1984, a photo essay on Shahpur Jat by Karoki Lewis, and a composite narrative by the young writers of the Cybermohalla Collective about the making of a resettlement colony.
City Improbable
Author | : Khushwant Singh |
Publsiher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015049607727 |
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Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.
Writing Fantasy Science Fiction
Author | : Brian M. Stableford |
Publsiher | : Unistar Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The Town and Country Magazine Or Universal Repository of Knowledge Instruction and Entertainment
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1782 |
Genre | : English periodicals |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HW28DX |
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The English Cyclopaedia
Author | : Charles Knight |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10351915 |
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The English Cyclopaedia
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1036 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112107992270 |
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The English Cyclop dia
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059172131175534 |
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Arts and Sciences
Author | : Charles Knight |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : WISC:89094373370 |
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