Book Description
The novel travels back and forth 600 years in time and the story is told through a journalist's eyes and his relationship with a hijra, Bhagmati. The book covers many important event and personalities relating to Delhi, from the dawn of Mughal Empire to its sunset and the crushing of Sepoy Mutiny by the British in 1857, from people like Nadir Shah and Aurangzeb, who plundered Delhi to Meer Taqi Meer and Bahadur Shah Zaffar, whom Delhi destroyed. In the present day it explores the relationship between Khushwant Singh and Bhagmati. Written by one of India's best writers, one of the finest book you can read on Delhi and it's transformation through the ages.
About the Author
Khushwant Singh, born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali, British India, now a part of Punjab, Pakistan, is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country. An important post-colonial novelist writing in English, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit.
