City of Djinns: A Year in DelhiAlive with the mayhem of the present and sparkling with William Dalrymple's irrepressible wit, 'City of Djinns' is a fascinating portrait of a city. Watched over and protected by the mischievous, invisible djinns, Delhi has, through their good offices, been saved from destruction many times over the centuries. With an extraordinary array of characters, from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj, Dalrymple's second book is a unique and dazzling feat of research. Over the course of a year he comes to know the bewildering city intimately, and brilliantly conveys its magical nature, peeling back successive layers of history, and interlacing innumerable stories from Delhi's past and present. |
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... Hakim Ajmal Khan . The old men swam together through great oceans of nostalgia before finally coming ashore on a strand of melancholy . ' But all of that is no more , ' said Ali . ' All that made Delhi special has been uprooted and ...
... hakim - in trays , on top of cupboards , stretched out over long mahogany bookshelves stood line upon line of cork- stoppered jars , phials and bottles . All these jars contained ground and powdered herbs of different colours and ...
... Hakim Abdul Jamil , 271-3 Haksar Haveli , 56 Haqqee , Shanulhaq , 60-4 Hastinapura , 325 , 327 , 329 , 331 Hauz Khas , 267-71 Havelis , 55-7 , 59 , 126 , 242 Haxby , Phyllis and Edith , 86-90 Hayat Baksh , 221 Hazar Ustan , 257 Heber ...