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Article: Dilli-India-Delhi
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 15, 2007
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Amit Mitra
Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 15 -- Nobody belongs to Delhi. Everybody belongs to Delhi. What that means becomes amply clear in this lustrous and lavish book in which images of Delhi - New and Old, new and old - knock on each other like memories clambering to be remembered.
Bookended between two memorable essays, Delhi Then & Now, like its predecessor, India Then & Now, is a collector's item. But the real sprawl in the book is the lovingly - and intelligently - collected photographs, researched and edited by the publisher himself, Pramod Kapoor.
Delhi has morphed itself quite a few times - the last one being the transformation from a 'Punjabi' city where, as ...