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Original Title:	Delhi
ISBN:	0140126198 (ISBN13: 9780140126198)
Edition Language:	English

Delhi Paperback | Pages: 391 pages

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"I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands."

Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijra whore Bhagmati - half man, half woman with sexual inventiveness and energy of both the sexes. Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator meets a myriad of people-poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs - who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very special mystique And as we accompany the narrator on his epic journey we find the city of emperors transformed and immortalized in our minds for ever.

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Title	:	Delhi
Author	:	Khushwant Singh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 391 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1990 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction

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It's an intriguing read. It's a controversial read. Two ppl can't read it and be left with the same set of emotions for it.So, here is what i understand from this novel. Through this book, the author has tried to express his own feelings, his own thoughts about various incidents that took place in Delhi, going back by at least 500 years or more. This entire novel is written in the form of small autobiographies narrated by diff ppl involved with the history of Delhi like Aurangazeb, Nadir Shah

My discovery of Khushwant Singh started because of a Ghazal made famous by Mehdi Hassan - "Yeh Dhuansa Kahaan se Uthata hain". I fell in love with the ghazal and keenly started looking for its origins. That took me to the name "Mir Taqi Mir", the Urdu Ghazal Maestro from Delhi, whom even Ghalib had appreciated through one of his sher: "Rekhta ke tum hi ustaad nahiN ho GHalibkahte haiN agle zamane meN koi Meer bhi tha"So google gave me some results with excerpts from Mr. Khushwant Singh's book -

What a wonderful read! Loved it.

Anyone fascinated by history of Delhi should read this. It took time for me to adapt to Khushwant Singh's raw descriptions of emotions, but his style grows on you. I recommend this book for the way it is structured - we see Delhi moving through time from perspectives of people living that history. You feel the bias of Aurangazeb in justifying his actions, understand the envy towards Khusrao, feel the pain of plundered population, the courage of independence fighters and the entitlement of

This book kept me up for several nights. I never fell asleep while reading the book but the exhaustion I felt after reading about the bloody massacres that have dotted the pages of Indian history was tremendous. This is an extremely powerful book. From the invasion of Taimur to the Anti-Sikh riots, to the personal accounts of the journey of the narrator which is interspersed in the book to provide respite from the heavy heat one feels after reading about the mostly bloody and accursed history of

Got this book from a friend and he said just read it slowly and be receptive!KS has really done a great job by depicting a different side of the great city. It is not something which many writers have seen/shown to us. I think Delhi is one of the best books about the city, precisely because it didn't try to mask it's repugnant ugliness beneath a mask. This book was published more than twenty years ago but it still holds a lot of relevance to the city today. You have to read between the lines,