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Most thought provoking essays on Delhi in 2009
We picked two we enjoyed for different reasons. One is entertaining dinner table fodder and the other a profound essay which will deeply transform the way you think about India's capital city
The first is a bitter pill-sized, mainstream media article, albeit written with a sense of humour, which tackles the deep contempt Mumbai harbors for the capital city.
The second is a profound and insightful essay by a prize winning young Indo-British author named Rana Dasgupta, on the subject of Delhi's super rich, written for Granta, a respected English journal of contemporary realist writing and story telling.
by Manu Joseph and Shyamal Banerjee for Open, The Magazine, June 2009
The center of their thesis is this: "Like a rich man’s son, Delhi is a beneficiary of undeserved privileges. That is at the heart of Bombay’s contempt for Delhi."
by Rana Dasgupta for Granta 107, The Magazine of New Writing, Summer 2009
This is like a real-life version of Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" one reader said on Granta's Facebook page. Christopher Lydon at the Huffington Post describes Dasgupta's eight page essay as an "anthropological [view]... on the veiled violence of money rampant in Nouveau Delhi."
