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Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

By (author) Rana Dasgupta

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WINNER OF THE PRIX Ã‰MILE GUIMET DE LITTÃ‰RATURE ASIATIQUE 2017 WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE Ã‰TRANGER 2016 In Capital, Rana Dasgupta reveals the new version of Delhi that grew out of India's economic boom in the early 1990s. Slums and markets were bulldozed or burnt down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Immense fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people from the rural hinterland streamed in, looking for work. The transformation of the city was stern, abrupt and unequal. Delhi brimmed with ambition and rage. In his first work of non-fiction, Rana Dasgupta shows us Delhi's rebirth, for better or worse, through the eyes of its people.