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A review by booksthatstay
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
4.0
From the riots of 1984 to Indraprastha, the mythical city of Pandavas, this travelogue has covered it all.
Having been brought up in Delhi and being a history buff that I am, I kept pondering over whether I will get any new insights or details which I am not already aware of.
Not only did I get new insights but was also able to understand what lead to the cascade of events that has shaped the 'modern' Delhi - Delhi as we know today!
This book is written in more of a candid conversation style and will have you hooked from the very first page.
As William Dalrymple has mentioned and what still holds true even today is that, different areas of Delhi have preserved intact different centuries, even different millenia.
Here, minds set in different ages walk the same pavements drink the same water, and return to the same dust.
After having read the book, I cannot agree more that Delhi is " a portrait of a city disjointed in time, a city whose different ages lay suspended side by side as in aspic, a city of djinns".
Read this book to not just understand the history of Delhi, of it's very famous monuments, it's culture, but to also understand how it was able to rebuilt itself every single time, like a phoenix from the fire.
Having been brought up in Delhi and being a history buff that I am, I kept pondering over whether I will get any new insights or details which I am not already aware of.
Not only did I get new insights but was also able to understand what lead to the cascade of events that has shaped the 'modern' Delhi - Delhi as we know today!
This book is written in more of a candid conversation style and will have you hooked from the very first page.
As William Dalrymple has mentioned and what still holds true even today is that, different areas of Delhi have preserved intact different centuries, even different millenia.
Here, minds set in different ages walk the same pavements drink the same water, and return to the same dust.
After having read the book, I cannot agree more that Delhi is " a portrait of a city disjointed in time, a city whose different ages lay suspended side by side as in aspic, a city of djinns".
Read this book to not just understand the history of Delhi, of it's very famous monuments, it's culture, but to also understand how it was able to rebuilt itself every single time, like a phoenix from the fire.