Book description
'I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had
my fill of whoring in foreign lands…' Thus begins Khushwant Singh's
vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal
narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy,
ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijda whore
Bhagmati-half man, half woman with sexual inventiveness and energy of
both the sexes. Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover'
his beloved city, the narrator meets a myriad of people-poets and
princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and
eunuchs-who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very special
mystique… And as we accompany the narrator on his epic journey we find
the city of emperors transformed and immortalized in our minds for ever.
