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Synopsis This is an extraordinary portrait of one of the world's largest cities. Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being 'India's dreamtown--and its purgatory'. He treads the city streets, making his way through Delhi and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinations--Nehru Place, Pitampura, Rohini and Gurgaon--that most writers ignore. Miller's quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of call--the ancient monuments, the imperial buildings and the celebrities of modern Delhi--make only passing appearances. Through his encounters with Delhi's people--from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass Band--Miller creates a richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the world's fastest-growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one who future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life's diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate people's lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar.