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Delhi : Unknown Tales Of A City

R V Smith

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Ronald Vivian Smith is an author of personal experiences ? a rare breed to find in a time when even journalists hesitate to put pen to paper without scanning through the internet. A definitive voice when it comes to some known and unknown tales and an inspiration to a new generation of city-scribes, Smith is a master-chronicler of Delhis myriad rea...lities. Among the capitals most ardent lovers, Smith believes in the power of observation and interaction. His travels across Delhi, most often in a DTC bus, examine the big and small curiosities ? seamlessly juxtaposing the past with the present. Be it the pride he encounters in the hutments of one of Chandni Chowks age-old beggar families, or his ambling walks around Delhis now-dilapidated cemeteries, Smith paints with his words a city full of magic and history. This anthology features short essays on the Indian sultanate, its fall after the British Raj, and its resurrection to become what it is today ? the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

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Author

  • Ronald Vivian Smith is an alumnus of St. John’s College, Agra and began writing as a teenager in 1954. He has authored many books, including four on Delhi, a romantic novel, Jasmine Nights & The Taj, three volumes of poetry, a collection of ghost yarns and a profile of the eighteenth-century Smith family he is descended from. As a septuagenarian he does not spend time on an easy-chair but in surveying out-of-the-way places for unusual stories that form the grist for weekly newspaper columns, ‘Quaint Corner’ and ‘Down Memory Lane’. This publication of his completes the proverbial baker’s dozen.

ISBN
9789351941255
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
224
Weight (kg)
1.331
Height (in)
8.5
Width (in)
5.5
Subject
Travel
Published Date
28/05/15
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • Ronald Vivian Smith is an alumnus of St. John’s College, Agra and began writing as a teenager in 1954. He has authored many books, including four on Delhi, a romantic novel, Jasmine Nights & The Taj, three volumes of poetry, a collection of ghost yarns and a profile of the eighteenth-century Smith family he is descended from. As a septuagenarian he does not spend time on an easy-chair but in surveying out-of-the-way places for unusual stories that form the grist for weekly newspaper columns, ‘Quaint Corner’ and ‘Down Memory Lane’. This publication of his completes the proverbial baker’s dozen.

ISBN
9789351941255
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
224
Weight (kg)
1.331
Height (in)
8.5
Width (in)
5.5
Subject
Travel
Published Date
28/05/15
Publisher
Roli Books
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Author

  • Ronald Vivian Smith is an alumnus of St. John’s College, Agra and began writing as a teenager in 1954. He has authored many books, including four on Delhi, a romantic novel, Jasmine Nights & The Taj, three volumes of poetry, a collection of ghost yarns and a profile of the eighteenth-century Smith family he is descended from. As a septuagenarian he does not spend time on an easy-chair but in surveying out-of-the-way places for unusual stories that form the grist for weekly newspaper columns, ‘Quaint Corner’ and ‘Down Memory Lane’. This publication of his completes the proverbial baker’s dozen.

ISBN
9789351941255
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
224
Weight (kg)
1.331
Height (in)
8.5
Width (in)
5.5
Subject
Travel
Published Date
28/05/15
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • Ronald Vivian Smith is an alumnus of St. John’s College, Agra and began writing as a teenager in 1954. He has authored many books, including four on Delhi, a romantic novel, Jasmine Nights & The Taj, three volumes of poetry, a collection of ghost yarns and a profile of the eighteenth-century Smith family he is descended from. As a septuagenarian he does not spend time on an easy-chair but in surveying out-of-the-way places for unusual stories that form the grist for weekly newspaper columns, ‘Quaint Corner’ and ‘Down Memory Lane’. This publication of his completes the proverbial baker’s dozen.

ISBN
9789351941255
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
224
Weight (kg)
1.331
Height (in)
8.5
Width (in)
5.5
Subject
Travel
Published Date
28/05/15
Publisher
Roli Books

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