About Book
I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands-' Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijda whore Bhagmati"half man, half woman with sexual inventiveness and energy of both the sexes. Travelling through time, space and history to -discover' his beloved city, the narrator meets a myriad of people"poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs"who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very special mystique- And as we accompany the narrator on his epic journey we find the city of emperors transformed and immortalized in our minds for ever.
About Author
Khushwant Singh ; born 2 February 1915) is an 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 Indo-Anglian novelist, 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. He served as editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan the second highest civilian award in India