Mind the Gap: Walking Delhi with the Metro

$21
FREE Delivery
Quantity
Delivery Ships in 1-3 days
Item Code: NAU182
Author: Wilson John
Publisher: Amaryllis
Language: ENGLISH
Edition: 2013
ISBN: 9789381506097
Pages: 182 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 9.00 X 5.50 inch
Weight 170 gm
Fully insured
Fully insured
Shipped to 153 countries
Shipped to 153 countries
More than 1M+ customers worldwide
More than 1M+ customers worldwide
100% Made in India
100% Made in India
23 years in business
23 years in business
Book Description
About The Book

Delhi, like India, is full of contradictions and history. Here empires were built, buried and rebuilt, as many as fourteen times. Those who ruled did with a relish and passion, creating a universe of verses and delicacies. The present is modern, crowded, ambitious - a potpourri of cultures and conflicts, where swanky cars dodge carefree bovines on roads lit with neon signs, and where perfectly respectable men empty their bladders with equal abundance.

The Metro has brought a ray of hope for those who want to see Delhi up-and-close on foot. Today, the Metro runs close to 200 kilometres across the city; it would log 400 kilometres within a few years, crisscrossing sites of ancient legends and medieval glory. This pocket-friendly book is a delightful guide and friend. Helpful directional maps and meticulously detailed sights and sounds of walking routes leave you pleasantly tired but exuberant in no less measure.

This is the first and only guide to Delhi's lanes and monuments, people and places, poets and djinns, and the Delhi Metro that traverses like, a silver worm of time across myths and folklores and tales of valour and empire-making that made the city a tempting and tempestuous beacon of riches and glory for millennia.

About The Author

WILSON JOHN spent years growing up in a street named after an anonymous British deputy commissioner, Major H.C. Beadon. It was no less puzzling that the biggest recreation ground was called Ajmal Khan Road, both named after a renowned expert of Greek medicine, Hakim Ajmal Khan, who lived in Ballimaran, where another more famous citizen once reigned, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib.

Wilson now lives, with his wife and a precocious teenager, in a colony across the river, along the metro line, where once peacocks danced among the ripening wheat fields and tiny villages, that not long ago was the battleground of Maratha forces and the British Army. The only physical evidence of the Battle of Patparganj fought in 1803, is a memorial hidden within the Noida Golf Course, the last but one stop on the Dwarka-Noida Metro line.

**Contents and Sample Pages**








Frequently Asked Questions
  • Q. What locations do you deliver to ?
    A. Exotic India delivers orders to all countries having diplomatic relations with India.
  • Q. Do you offer free shipping ?
    A. Exotic India offers free shipping on all orders of value of $30 USD or more.
  • Q. Can I return the book?
    A. All returns must be postmarked within seven (7) days of the delivery date. All returned items must be in new and unused condition, with all original tags and labels attached. To know more please view our return policy
  • Q. Do you offer express shipping ?
    A. Yes, we do have a chargeable express shipping facility available. You can select express shipping while checking out on the website.
  • Q. I accidentally entered wrong delivery address, can I change the address ?
    A. Delivery addresses can only be changed only incase the order has not been shipped yet. Incase of an address change, you can reach us at [email protected]
  • Q. How do I track my order ?
    A. You can track your orders simply entering your order number through here or through your past orders if you are signed in on the website.
  • Q. How can I cancel an order ?
    A. An order can only be cancelled if it has not been shipped. To cancel an order, kindly reach out to us through [email protected].
Add a review
Have A Question

For privacy concerns, please view our Privacy Policy

Book Categories