Finding Delhi: Loss & Renewal In The Meg

A book that looks at Delhi from myriad angles and tells many untold stories SELLING POINTS zz A book about the challenges facing contemporary Delhi zz Brings together many voices offering a kaleidoscopic view of the city THE BOOK About a city that has many hearts and many peripheries Delhi is a magnet for migrant workers students highly qualified professionals businessmen politicians. The capital since 1911 it has now finally started looking and acting like India s No. 1 city. In the national imagination it is a city of wide roads flyovers the Metro markets and multiple opportunities. But all this progress and the quest to become a world-class city have also had an unsettling effect. People have been pushed out of public spaces lakhs of slum dwellers have been banished and the Yamuna has been overwhelmed by sewage and industrial effluents. Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the Megacity brings together many voices offering a kaleidoscopic view of Delhi. It has essays on subjects such as the demolition of slums the factories that deal with the city s waste the campaigns for clean air and BRT corridors and the difficulties faced by women. Also included are first-hand accounts that reveal the travails of being a dhobi a garbage collector a fruit vendor and a maid in the megacity.