Capital - A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

At the turn of the 21st 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, 14 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?...