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Delirious City: Polity and Vanity in Urban India

 
Synopsis

This book grew out of a grainy combination of despair and delight that afflicts the residents of every Indian city. Delirious City is as much a collision of various mediums as it is of mixed messages, concocted out of a desperate urge to make sense of the City, its residents, their aspirations, and their perennial expectations. Its aim is to rile and provoke the reader with a disparate arc of writing, drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture and relieve the mood in satire. Daily life, events, places and personalities--houses, builders, parks, malls, bureaucrats, politicians, the rich, the poor, the labourer and the liquor baron--all are condensed as a virulent strain of muddled voices that describe our civic reality. Bitter tragedy, urban despair, and personal desire emerge in daily urban encounters and manifest a euphoric edge, often yielding to subversive comedy. The discourse begins then by describing urban life as it exists, proceeds down the path of memory to state something of how it used to be, and finally addresses the hope of a different future--of how we may begin to view the places we make with optimism and hope. Sometimes architectural, sometimes cultural--but frequently facetious and farcical--Delirious City imitates life in the Indian city.

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Bibliographic information

Title Delirious City: Polity and Vanity in Urban India
Format Softcover
Date published: 20.09.2019
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Niyogi Books
Language: English
isbn 9789389136104
length 312p., 324 Ills & 16 Photos.