Capital Intensive | Books
Giles Tillotson's history of Delhi reads like a friendly guide.
by Gautam Bhatia
Aug 16, 2019
2 minutes
A serious lapse in a guide to a city is the inability of its author to submit to the travails of its culture and living routines. For the most part, historic remains appear as static testimonials to a forgotten time, their importance gauged by the forbidding silence within which they exist. In his book Delhi Darshan, Giles Tillotson, however, takes a more voluble
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