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Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity (2000)

by Sam Miller(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Penguin Books India

review 1: Miller decides to explore his adopted city on foot by starting at its centre, Connaught Place, and working outwards in ever increasing circles. He deserves full marks for sticktoitiveness, Delhi is not a city built for walking. It is, despite the author's fondness for it, quite awful. He runs into open sewers, ponds of water where mosquitoes pass on dengue fever, an open-air abattoir and oh yes, falls into an open manhole. Delhi continues to grow and the economic miracle of the 1990s puts middle class housing and shopping cheek-by-jowl with the very poor. Miller visits the famous rubbish mountain and its resident rag pickers. Just outside of Delhi proper is a mammoth, western-style suburb called Gurgaon with shopping malls, skyscrapers and zooming highways. Miller, finding... more no street life here, hates it. India, fascinating in all its guises, is opened wide in this book.
review 2: For a person who enjoys walking and discovering places...this book was an amazing read. I found nodding my head vigorously when the author mentions that Delhi-ites never walk and it is true. I have always wondered why people who live in a city which is full of things, people and places to discover, never bother to do so. Anyway, it was an enjoyable read though a lot has changed in the city from the time the book was written and yet many things still remain the same ! Sam Miller takes a humorous look at the wonderful city of Delhi without the normal condescending tone adopted by westerners when writing about things Indian, but for his surname and the colour of his skin, he could easily have been an Indian from another part of the country exploring this paradoxial city which is our capital. less

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