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Rakhshanda Jalil
9789363362147
Language: English
448 Pages
5.5 x 8.5 Inches
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They say Delhi belongs to no one. For it seems everyone who lives in it calls someplace else home, from its slum dwellers to its ruling classes. As if its non-identity were its identity. Rakhshanda Jalil, who calls Delhi her home without reservation, searches for this invisible city, through stories—about Dilli, New Delhi, and everything in between.
In the thirty-two stories in this collection, there is a city that pushes through in its unbearable heat and cold and a city that plays rummy and talks golf at the Gymkhana Club; a phoenix city built by emperors and imperialists, by poets, by labourers, traders and fixers; a city that survived the Partition and shelters its victims; and a city of lovers and dreamers, but also of thick-skinned, cynical politicians and babus. Among the writers featured in this majestic anthology are legends and new voices—Khushwant Singh, Bhisham Sahni, Rashid Jahan, Mohan Rakesh, Gulzar, Kartar Singh Duggal, Krishna Sobti, Keki Daruwalla, M. Mukundan, Asghar Wajahat, Namita Gokhale, Uday Prakash, Navtej Sarna, Sujit Saraf, Vandana Singh, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Manjula Padmanabhan, Ajay Navaria, Ankush Saikia and Priya Hajela.
Basti & Durbar is an intimate portrait of Delhi. It will also be an enduring one.
Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic and literary historian. Her published work comprises edited anthologies, among them a selection of Pakistani women writers entitled, Neither Night Nor Day; and a collection of esssays on Delhi, Invisible City: she is co-author of Partners in Freedom: Jamia Millia Islamia and Journey to a Holy Land: A Pilgrim’s Diary. She is also a well-known translator, with eight published translations of Premchand, Asghar Wajahat, Sa'adat Hasan Manto, Shahryar, Intezar Hussain and Phanishwarnath Renu. She runs an organisation called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularisation of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture, and blogs at www.hindustaniawaaz-rakhshanda.blogspot.com and at IBN Live. Her debut collection of fiction, Release & Other Stories, was published in 2011.
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