The
great Indian intellectual U.R. Ananthamurthy once remarked that the
Indian writer is luckier than his Western counterpart, for he lives
simultaneously in the 12th and 21st centuries, and in every century
in between. This is certainly true of Delhi, and it provides the city
both with its biggest problems and its greatest boons. The close
juxtaposition of different worlds, disjointed in time, may make the
city dangerous and violent, but it also gives its beauty, its energy,
its fascination, and it makes it what it is.
From: Delhi, Monster Metropolis by
William
Dalrymple
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