{"product_id":"city-improbable-9780143415329","title":"City Improbable","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Khushwant Singh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Delhi is the twin of pure paradise, a prototype of the heavenly throneon an earthlyscroll’—Amir KhusrauA city of contradictions, where ancient traditions and modern aspirationsjostle for space, Delhi has often been compared to a phoenix rising fromthe ashes. Its three thousand years of eventful history have witnessed therise and fall of several empires, a process that continues today.City Improbable brings together writings by immigrants, residents,refugees, travellers and invaders who have engaged with India’s capitalover different epochs. Babur shares his earliest experience of the cityand Amir Khusrau praises the fine lads of Delhi; Ibn Battuta and NiccolaoManucci record the glories and follies of prominent rulers; William Dalrympleand Khushwant Singh provide intriguing accounts of the threshold periodthat saw the coming of the British and the waning of the Mughals. Poetsand storytellers—Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, Yashpal, Kamleshwar, RuskinBond—narrate their versions of the city. Contemporary Delhi is featuredin a variety of vignettes: the bureaucracy, the Emergency, the anti-Sikhviolence, lovers and joggers in Lodi Gardens, the city’s Sufi legacy as wellas its changing cuisine.Among the new pieces in this expanded edition are Sam Miller’s accountof his experiences in the suburb of Noida, Manto’s story about a girlfrom Delhi leaving the city during Partition, Jarnail Singh’s unflinchingrecollection of the massacre of Sikhs in 1984, a photo essay on ShahpurJat by Karoki Lewis, and a composite narrative by the young writers of theCybermohalla Collective about the making of a resettlement colony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296437194903,"sku":"9780143415329","price":293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143415329.webp?v=1769304738","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/city-improbable-9780143415329","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}