About the Book: Perpetual City: A Short Biography Of Delhi
"A heartfelt love letter to Delhi that is part history, part family memoir and
part indignant call to arms: Why do we tolerate the neglect of Indias greatest
city, asks Mala Singh. More importantly, she brilliantly shows why we should
care and how we need to learn to value the nations extraordinary capital city."
- William Dalrymple. Capital to successive empires and the independent Indian
republic, Delhi is finally coming into its own as the nations first city in the
twenty-first century. In so doing, it has left behind once and future contenders
for the title