Delhi: CAPITAL CHRONICLES

Traverse the city's past and present with these new books

- DIYA KOHLI

In the layer-cake capital of nearly 33 million people, red sandstone forts, medieval step-wells, sprawling forests, shining malls, and urban sprawl-stories lie everywhere. Three new books spotlight Delhi via neighbourhood guides, maps, and a field manual for the city's feathered denizens.

The Birds of the Delhi Area Sudhir Vyas’s The Birds of the Delhi Area provides a superb insight into broader aspects of the birds seen –beyond identification – to contextualize their presence in the Delhi area, their habitat, distribution and to sum up the current state of our knowledge of their status, and changes in status over the past decades. Shop Now