Completed reading "Delhi" by Khushwant Singh on the bus somewhere near Khadkee.
It rekindled (or is it "kindled") an interest in history for me. This is the way they should be teaching us history in school.
The book is about "Delhi" narrated in first person by many people throughout the ages starting from Timur, it gets autobiographical in patches and goes back and forth from the past to the present without a break in the narrative.
How I wish I had spent my two months in Delhi better than running around trying to correct components of home appliances during my stint at CG appliances. Someday I will go back to Delhi and see it through the eyes of Meer Taqi Meer or Nadir Shah or Bhagmati from Lal Kuan. To say that I was very little away from visiting Lal Quila or the Qutub Minar or Jama Masjid and not seen any of them is a pity.
Coming back to the present ... should be getting back to reading
2 comments:
Isn't the novel a little to saucy and distasteful in parts for schools ?
There is a section on Farts that make hilarious reading.
The book is really well written. The eunuch bit could have been avoided!
@jb
Thanks for dropping by ...
Yes the farts were outrageous.
The school textbooks should not be a verbatim substance of "Delhi" but the style can make history more interesting.
well the eunuchs and the farts would be hilarious too in the class room ...;-), just kidding
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