Capital: The Eruption of Delhi Hardcover - 2014
by DASGUPTA, Rana
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Details
- Title Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
- Author DASGUPTA, Rana
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 466
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Press, 2014, U.S.A.
- Date 2014-05-15
- Bookseller's Inventory # Ind295
- ISBN 9781594204470 / 1594204470
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 14.73 x 4.06 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Delhi (India) - Social conditions, Delhi (India) - Economic conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014005338
- Dewey Decimal Code 330.954
Summary
India has not become a new America, though. It more closely resembles post–Soviet Russia with its culture of tremendous excess and undercurrents of gangsterism. But more than anything else, India’s capital, Delhi, is an avatar for capitalism unbound. Capital is an intimate portrait of this very distinct place as well as a parable for where we are all headed.
In the style of V. S. Naipaul’s now classic personal journeys, Dasgupta travels through Delhi to meet with extraordinary characters who mostly hail from what Indians call the new Indian middle class, but they are the elites, by any measure. We first meet Rakesh, a young man from a north Indian merchant family whose business has increased in value by billions of dollars in recent years. As Dasgupta interviews him by his mammoth glass home perched beside pools built for a Delhi sultan centuries before, the nightly party of the new Indian middle class begins. To return home, Dasgupta must cross the city, where crowds of Delhi’s workers, migrants from the countryside, sleep on pavements. The contrast is astonishing.
In a series of extraordinary meetings that reveals the attitudes, lives, hopes, and dreams of this new class, Dasgupta meets with a fashion designer, a tech entrepreneur, a young CEO, a woman who has devoted her life to helping Delhi’s forgotten poor—and many others. Together they comprise a generation on the cusp, like that of fin-de-siècle Paris, and who they are says a tremendous amount about what the world will look like in the twenty-first century.
