Mind the Gap: Walking Delhi with the Metro

• Delhi, like India, is full of contradictions and history. Here empires were built, buried and rebuilt, as many as fourteen times. The present is crowded, modern, ambitious - a potpourri of cultures and conflicts, where swanky cars dodge carefree bovines on roads lit with neon signs.
• The Metro has brought a ray of hope for those who want to see Delhi up-and-close on foot. Mind the gap: Walking Delhi with the Metro is the first and only, guide to Delhi's lanes and monuments, people and places, poets and djinns and the Delhi Metro, that traverses like a silver worm of time across myths and folklores and empire-making that made the city a tempting and tempestuous beacon

About the Author

Wilson John is a senior fellow with the Observer Research Foundations, a well-known public policy think tank in New Delhi. He has presented several papers on Pakistan, India's neighborhood and terrorism, his areas of expertise. He spent years growing up in a street named after an anonymous British deputy commissioner, Major H.C. Beadon. It was no less puzzling that the biggest recreation ground was called Ajmal Khan Road, both named after a renowned expert of Greek medicine. Hakim Ajmal Khan, who lived in Ballimaran where another more famous citizen once reigned, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. These influences have been instrumental in inspiring Wilson to write this unique guide to Delhi.of riches and glory for millennia.