Book: PLACE: INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS WITH CITIESAuthor: Ananya VajpeyiADVERTISEMENTPublished by: Women UnlimitedPrice: Rs 625Cities, like people, wear masks. Ananya Vajpeyi’s Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities does so by imbibing that very multiplicity of places — part memoir, part travelogue, part sociopolitical commentary. It’s a book of flux, in flux, in and of changing cities, of changing minds and changing times. Thus, in mapping external geography, Vajpeyi inevitably charts internal terrain. Vajpeyi can’t describe Delhi neutrally because Delhi shaped her, just as her perception shapes the Delhi she describes.

Source: The Telegraph February 06, 2026 20:41 UTC