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Delirious Delhi: Publishing globally. TODAY. 4 Jun 2013 | 06:06 am
This blog began in 2007. We left India in 2009. HarperCollins India published Delirious Delhi within India in 2011. And now, finally, reverse globalization has taken effect: what began in India is fin...
Delhi: The Lament of the Hungry Expat (my essay from The Book Review India) 13 Jan 2012 | 06:20 pm
Click for bigger version This essay was originally published in The Book Review India. If you’ve read Delirious Delhi, then this essay is essentially an epilogue: a postscript about the expat’s post...
portraits from Bangalore’s Krishna Rajendra Market 4 Jan 2012 | 09:39 am
On my visit to Bangalore last month (as part of my Delirious Delhi book release tour), I wandered into the Krishna Rajendra Market. This multistory concrete structure, I quickly realized, is among the...
Lutyens’ Delhi survival guide (my article from Indian Express’ Eye Magazine) 14 Dec 2011 | 10:12 am
This article was originally published on Dec 11 in Indian Express’s Eye Magazine. An expat’s guide to surviving Lutyens’ Delhi by Dave Prager Lutyens’ Delhi was built for expats. British ones, spec...
Highlights from Bangalore and Delhi (#2) launch events 11 Dec 2011 | 09:33 pm
Bangalore’s traffic apocalypse is very different from Delhi’s traffic apocalypse. Delhi has epic jams: packed boulevards that stretch to the horizon; masses of vibrating, coughing vehicles; drivers a...
Highlights from the Mumbai reading 6 Dec 2011 | 08:51 pm
Delirious Delhi on display in Crossroads Bookstore, Kemps Corner, Mumbai Mumbai is much more intense than Delhi. It’s India’s Manhattan: as a peninsula, its waters prevent a Delhi-like sprawl. So Mum...
Second Delhi book release event added! 3 Dec 2011 | 04:34 pm
If you missed the Delirious Delhi event at the American Center (or if you just want to get four more books signed), please join me at the Olive Beach Restaurant in Chanakyapuri on Thursday, December 8...
Highlights: Delhi launch for Delirious Delhi 3 Dec 2011 | 07:26 am
The first wild sighting of Delirious Delhi! Two years after leaving our Delhi home, I’ve returned for the publication of my new book about life in this city of sixteen million. And returning after s...
returning to Delhi: what change will I see? 29 Nov 2011 | 10:42 am
How much does a city change in two-and-a-half years? Well, here’s the answer. A few hours ago, I Tweeted that while Tom Cruise, the rapper Pitbull, and I are all reaching Delhi in a few days, only I w...
December book release events: Delhi, Mumbai, & Bangalore 21 Nov 2011 | 06:49 am
Delirious Delhi is coming to India, and so am I! Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the founding of New Delhi, I will be arriving for free book release events in three Indian cities. I hope to ...