Peter Parker

Lawlessness, corruption, poverty and pollution: the city where we’re all headed

A review of Rana Dasgupta's Capital: A Portrait of 21st-century Delhi. The upper crust and underbelly of India's capital

A dreadful warning: a fisherman paddles through a tide of toxic waste on the Yamuna river, against a backdrop of smog and high-rise construction [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 15 March 2014
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  • Capital: A Portrait of 21st-century Delhi

    Rana Dasgupta

    Canongate, pp. 457

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