Bombay is a city and Delhi is a village once intoned scornful hepcats from Maximum City as they laughed at Delhi’s bucolic vistas and lack of Big City night life. How wrong they’ve now been proven! Mumbai is today the city of dreadful knights, its so-called cosmopolitanism in tatters with regressive sons-of-the-soil dominance, its once famed skyscrapers teetering on shaky foundations.
By contrast, which city is today India’s urbs prima? Delhi, of course! Leafy avenues have transformed into thundering highways, sleepy corner shops are bustling cafe filled markets, old communities of Punjabi refugees and Mathur Kayasths have been replaced by a massively varied multicultural citizenry because today Delhi belongs to everyone and to no one.
The 60s and early 70s may have Read More
