Delirious Delhi: Inside India's Incredible Capital
Dave Prager
Language: English
Pages: 234
ISBN: B00A3KAM32
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave Prager and his wife, Jenny, moved to a city of sixteen million people—with seemingly twice as many honking horns. Living and working in Delhi, the couple wrote about their travails and discoveries on their popular blog Our Delhi Struggle. This book, all new, is Dave's top-to-bottom account of a megacity he describes as simultaneously ecstatic, hallucinatory, feverish, and hugely energizing. Weaving together useful observations and hilarious anecdotes, he covers what you need to know to enjoy the city and discover its splendors: its sprawling layout,some favorite sites, the food, the markets, and the challenges of living in or visiting a city that presents every human extreme at once. Among his revelations: secrets that every Delhiite knows, including the key phrase for successfully negotiating with any shopkeeper; the most fascinating neighborhoods, and the trendiest; the realities behind common stereotypes; tips for enjoying street food and finding hidden restaurants, as well as navigating the transportation system; and the nuances of gestures like the famous Indian head bobble. Delirious Delhi is at once tribute to a great world city and an invitation to explore. Read it, and you'll want to book the next flight!
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Ourselves walking down a long, desolate road on the way down from Malabar Hill. It was twilight on that wooded lane, and the few people we saw were outnumbered by the giant bats swooping purposefully on two-foot wings. In the distance, at the bottom of the hill, two goras materialized: a guy and a girl, coming our way on the same sidewalk. Their very existence deflated the mystery of the trail we’d hoped to blaze, just as our very existence stripped their intended path of all the drama it might.
17–19 rain, 17–18, 49–50 spring, 15 summer, 16–17 winter, 11–15, 143, 289, 316–318 weddings, 114–118 Mehndi Ceremony, 115–116, 118 Western, 116–117 women’s safety. See crime, against women Yamuna River, 37–40, 374–375.
Contacts among the taxi stands near my office on those rare days he was the one actually waiting for me. And then there was Ajay. About a year into my partnership with Birender, my rotating cast of drivers gave way to consistency, and Ajay became my daily driver. He was twenty-two years old and a keen student of popular fashion. His hair was long and styled and oiled to a gleaming sheen. He had an earring in his left ear, a mobile phone flashier than Birender’s, and a fashionable green jacket.
Into shock absorbers. So it would be a pleasant surprise those few times when I’d come down to find a shiny white Toyota Innova waiting for me, its deep bucket seat promising a luxurious ride. On these occasions, Birender himself would be at the wheel. Birender spoke decent English, so we’d chat about mundane things for the first part of the ride until he’d focus his attention on his mobile and I’d enjoy the comfort of the seat and the convenience of a seat belt I didn’t actually have to dig.
Worse than Harlem!” he told us. One day he and Mrs. M. grew convinced that someone was stealing light bulbs out of our stairwell, so he unilaterally instituted a policy of padlocking the front gate at 7 p.m., right after Shankar’s employees left, instead of at midnight as it had been up until then. Unlocking the padlock was difficult enough from the inside; unlocking it from the outside, as I now had to do every night when I arrived home from work, required contorting my wrist to ease the.