Capital

The Eruption of Delhi

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Release Date: 04/28/2015
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Classification: Nonfiction
Classification: Nonfiction
Series: N/A
Language: English
Format: Unabridged edition
Genre: Educational, Science & Technology
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Read by: Dana Hickox
Duration: 959 minutes
Run Time: 959 minutes
Language: English
Language: English
13 Audio CD(s) - 9781520019840
2 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781520019857

Capital

The Eruption of Delhi

By Rana Dasgupta

Genre: Educational, Science & Technology

Audio CD

05/24/2016

13 Audio CD

959 minutes

9781520019840

Audio MP3 CD

05/24/2016

2 Audio MP3 CD

959 minutes

9781520019857

Description:

The boom following the opening up of India’s economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Many fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores nestled among the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. Interweaving over a century of history with his personal journey, Dasgupta presents us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century’s fastest-growing megalopolises – a dark and uncanny portrait that gives us insights, too, as to the nature of our own – everyone’s – shared, global future.

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A grim picture of a city run by oligarchs and the 'new black-money elite,' where success depends on 'influence, assets, and connections.' This book is highly recommended for anyone looking for background information on Delhi…The author’s account of the downside of the post-1991 free market economy and the pursuit of self-interest above all serves as a cautionary tale, doing for Delhi what Suketu Mehta's Maximum City accomplished for Mumbai., Library Journal

A sincere, troubling look at India's wrenching social and cultural changes., Kirkus

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