| Description |
304 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Seven cities and anycity -- Two cities of victory -- Toda café blues -- Mapping freedom -- Speaking in haiku -- Trailblazing in Andalusia -- Looking for a nation, looking at the nation -- Bittersweet Danish -- Seeing Palestine -- Almost home |
| Summary |
TRAVEL WRITING. In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes uson illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all overthe world Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi trying to live with basic human dignity undercircumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty. JM Coetzee What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington D.C.? How dopeople in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grandmonuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? Inten intricately carved essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan tackles these questions andtakes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world s most fascinating and fraught cities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Hariharan, Githa, 1954- -- Travel.
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City and town life.
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Travel.
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| LC no. |
bl2016011575 |
| ISBN |
9781632060617 |
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