A powerful, affecting city biography that is relevant now more than ever. Essential reading for an insight into the new India.
Amrita Shah has been a columnist and contributing editor with the Indian Express and was the founding editor of Elle India. Among the books she has written is a biography of Vikram Sarabhai (Penguin India, 2007). Shah received fellowships from the New India Foundation, the Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council and Fulbright to write Ahmedabad: A City in the World. She is currently visiting faculty at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Combines solid research with literary grace ... Both a political
and an intellectual journey ... elegantly crafted and gripping
*UR Ananthamurthy*
In this richly researched and elegantly written book, Amrita Shah
explores the paradoxes of Ahmedabad: a city that is at once
nativist and cosmopolitan, caring and hedonistic, austere and
exhibitionist. This fine study should serve as a model for other
works on the rapidly changing cityscapes of twenty-first century
India.
*Ramachandra Guha*
Shah penetrates this unusual city as it hasn't been before.
*Aakar Patel*
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