The realities of Lutyens' Delhi

Despite the wealth of details tracing the evolution of the city through the 20th and the first two decades of this century, the book does not really end

Connaught Place

And the making of New Delhi

Swapna Liddle

Speaking Tiger 

Pages: 175; Price: Rs 499

Asked if he had any regrets about his first tenure as prime minister, Narendra Modi at a TV interview last week said: “I could never make Lutyens’ world part of me nor me part of them.” He was referring to the upscale areas in central Delhi that houses ministers, bureaucrats, and senior army officers, and is idiomatic of the ruling establishment of the country. The jury is still out on whether or not such an establishment actually exists, but there is general consensus on one fact: British architect