Capital City: the Beauty and Savagery of Delhi in the 21st Century
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The global capital market has brought changes, opportunities, innovation, and hope to Delhi, but it has also brought about a real estate market and medical system dominated by money, endless violent crimes, abuse of nature and the environment, a dysfunctional administrative system and corruption, coupled with the racial problems that have existed since the partition of India and Pakistan. Delhi residents in the 21st century are facing increasingly severe challenges. No matter the rich, the middle class, scavengers, or criminals, no one is immune to this contradiction between destruction and creation. As a second-generation immigrant from India to the UK, Dasgupta returned to the land of his ancestors with a feeling of both intimacy and curiosity. Through his own observations and interviews with residents of Delhi, he intertwined the history of Delhi with the present with a novelist's vivid writing, leaving an objective record of the alienation and cruelty under the tide of urban development. Today, when capitalism and globalization are sweeping the world, Delhi, which is flooded with money capital, is both the common past and the inevitable future of many cities.
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