Delhi: City of Yoginis
Book Specification
Item Code: | IDI989 |
Author: | Suphal Kumar |
Publisher: | Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2006 |
ISBN: | 9788177694925 |
Pages: | 283 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.3" X 5.4" |
Weight | 340 gm |
Book Description
Back of the Book
Delhi: City of Yoginis, searches into the innermost heart of the sacred space, known to the modern world as New Delhi. Suphal Kumar has amply described its history both ancient and modern. He has created a whole new perspective in his vision of Delhi.
Suphal Kumar, mainstream journalist and postgraduate of Banaras Hindu University, has used not only his literary skills but also his journalistic experience whilst compiling this work. His other literary achievements include Date-line Varanasi, a collection of his experiences as a journalist in the oldest living city-his hometown-where he served for nearly two decades as correspondent of a national news agency.
" this book should be an eye opener and a jolt back to reality and the realization that it is time to search for one's roots not in the by lanes of London or New York but here in Delhi the seat of a heritage still unfathomed by those closest it."-Christopher N Burchett
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | ||
Mother goddess | ||
1. | When the Nail came loose | 3-5 |
2. | From a City of Dharma to a City of Sins | 6-21 |
3. | Finding the Center | 22-23 |
4. | Prophet's Daughter | 31-35 |
5. | In the Mother's Vulva | 36-42 |
6. | Nani Peer Welcomes Naked Sons | 43-49 |
7. | Mother accepts only Flowers | 50-51 |
8. | Goddess of Revolution | 52-54 |
Mutiny | ||
9. | Delhi:May 10, 1857 | 57-58 |
10. | No kisses and hugs for cowards | 59-62 |
11. | Plunderer of Delhi's Somnath temple | 63-71 |
12. | Firangi's Pandey | 72-80 |
13. | War against First War of Independence (1857) | 81-88 |
14. | A Secular Fanatic and a Fanatic Communalist | 89-92 |
Sacred space | ||
15. | Guinea pig in a Laboratory | 97-101 |
16. | The World of Auto Rickshaw Wallahs | 102-106 |
17. | Witnessing a Secualar Parody | 107-114 |
18. | In Search of a Grave | 115-121 |
19. | Trees of Delhi | 122-130 |
20. | The Mother Shadow's family | 131-137 |
21. | Surajkund: The Divine Amphitheatre | 138-154 |
22. | Purana Qila | 155-164 |
23. | Neem Bada | 165-178 |
24. | Neeli Chhatri Temple | 179-187 |
25. | Mother's blood pot is empty | 188-198 |
26. | Nigambodha Ghat | 199-205 |
27. | Delhi's Kashi Vishwanath Temple | 206-211 |
28. | Sacred Space of Delhi | 212-230 |
29. | Indra pad and Vishnu pad | 231-240 |
Polity | ||
1. | Bunker 13 | 243-249 |
2. | Question hour (3000 B.C. to 2006 A.D.) | 250-257 |
3. | Open the door | 258-267 |
4. | Lutyen's Delhi | 268-272 |