{"product_id":"delhi-mostly-harmless-one-womans-vision-of-the-city","title":"Delhi - Mostly Harmless: One Womans Vision of the City","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enobody who lives there, nobody at all, has much Used to say about Delhi.' Along with Milton Keynes, Detroit and Purgatory, Delhi is one of the world's great unloved destinations. So when Elizabeth Chatterjee makes her way from the cool hum of Oxford to the demented June heat of heat of Delhi to research her PhD, she find herself both baffled and curious about the je ne sais quoi of this city of 'graveyards and tombstones'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs flanêur and sagacious resident, Liz takes us through the serpentine power structures, the idyll, the bullshit-peeling layer after layer of the city's skin to reveal its aspirations, its insecurity, its charm and finally its urban dissonance. Uncannily perceptive, predictive and hysterical, Delhi Mostly Harmless puts a firm finger on the electric pulse of Delhi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKey Features:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe book takes a timely and humorous look at Delhi's search for an identity, its elites and its future. Targeted at a general audience, it will include approximately fifteen concise thematic chapters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBased on months spent as a visitor, a resident and a young researcher into the country's corridors of power, it combines tragicomic personal anecdotes with broader social insights into this most up-and-coming but insecure of world cities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnlike other books done about the city, Elizabeth's voice in unique, intelligent and rich with smacking observations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Best of used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":43882151772417,"sku":"2ON8WM7SX-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/DELHI.jpg?v=1644496342","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/delhi-mostly-harmless-one-womans-vision-of-the-city","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}