About the Book: Basti and Durbar Delhi-New Delhi: A City in Stories
They say Delhi belongs to no one. Perhaps theyre right. For it seems everyone
who lives in it calls someplace else home, from its slum dwellers to its ruling
classes. As if its non-identity were its identity. Rakhshanda Jalil, who calls
Delhi her home without reservation, searches for this invisible city, through
stories—about Dilli, New Delhi, and everything in between.
In the twenty-nine stories in this collection, there is a city that pushes
through in its unbearable heat and cold and a city that plays golf and rummy at
the Gymkhana Club; a phoenix