TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FIRST PART (18th-century poetry and a luxury skyscraper)

1: The Heart of the World

2: Empire Follows Art

3: …and then…

4: At Street Level

5: These Same Views

6: Poet Emperor

7: A Poem of Human Types

8: A Container for the Mess

9: Delhi's First

10: Tangled Threads

SECOND PART (Drained swamps and American influencers)

11: The City's Edge

12: Durbar

13: Celluloid History

14: Fleas and Mosquitoes

15: Dust

16: Now or Never

17: Captive Audiences

18: Plan of the Masters

19: The Unintended City

(20): A Footnote about my Grandfather

THIRD PART (An artist colony and magic boxes)

21: Criminal from Birth

22: Other Wanderers

23: Brick

24: The Black Box

25: Eyeball to Eyeball

26: Delhi's Norma Desmond

27: Serious Playthings

28: The Other Theory

29: All One Family

30: To See and Be Seen

31: Emergency

LAST PART (No tidy conclusions)

32: Jugaad

33: Paradox of Grace

34: Kubza

35: The City of Poets

Notes