Delhi Author:Khushwant Singh "I return to Delhi as i return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands..." — Thus begins Khushwant Singh's vast, erotic, irreverent magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the sage, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijd... more »a whore Bhagmati -- half man, half woman with the sexual inventiveness and energy of both the sexes. Travelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator meets a myriad of people -- poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emporers and eunuchs -- who have participated in (and been witness to) the major histsorical forces that have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very special mystique...And, as we accompany the narrator on his epic journey we find the city of emperors transformed and immortalized in our minds for ever.« less