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Delhi

Delhi

Mostly Harmless-One woman’s vision of the city

Elizabeth Chatterjee
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‘… nobody who lives there, nobody at all, has much good to say about Delhi.’ Along with Milton Keynes, Detroit and Purgatory, Delhi is one of the world’s great unloved destinations.
So when Elizabeth Chatterjee makes her way from the cool hum of Oxford to the demented June heat of heat of Delhi to research her PhD, she find herself both baffled and curious about the je ne sais quoi of this city of ‘graveyards and tombstones’. As flanêur and sagacious resident, Liz takes us through the serpentine power structures, the idyll, the bullshit­—peeling layer after layer of the city’s skin to reveal its aspirations, its insecurity, its charm and finally its urban dissonance.
Uncannily perceptive, predictive, and hysterical, Delhi Mostly Harmless puts a firm finger on the electric pulse of Delhi.

Imprint: Ebury Press

Published: Dec/2013

ISBN: 9788184003567

Length : 296 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Delhi

Mostly Harmless-One woman’s vision of the city

Elizabeth Chatterjee

‘… nobody who lives there, nobody at all, has much good to say about Delhi.’ Along with Milton Keynes, Detroit and Purgatory, Delhi is one of the world’s great unloved destinations.
So when Elizabeth Chatterjee makes her way from the cool hum of Oxford to the demented June heat of heat of Delhi to research her PhD, she find herself both baffled and curious about the je ne sais quoi of this city of ‘graveyards and tombstones’. As flanêur and sagacious resident, Liz takes us through the serpentine power structures, the idyll, the bullshit­—peeling layer after layer of the city’s skin to reveal its aspirations, its insecurity, its charm and finally its urban dissonance.
Uncannily perceptive, predictive, and hysterical, Delhi Mostly Harmless puts a firm finger on the electric pulse of Delhi.

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Elizabeth Chatterjee

Born and raised in Yorkshire, Liz Chatterjee is a perpetual student. She graduated with a double first in History from Merton College, Oxford, before moving on to study contemporary Indian politics. Following brief stints working with Unicef and Oxfam, she is currently writing a doctorate on Indian energy policy. In 2008, she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she lives when not in Delhi.

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