”A terrific portrait of Delhi right now.” (Salman Rushdie). ”An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers.” (William Dalrymple). When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him - he `fell in love and in hate with it` - and fifteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Over these fifteen years, he has watched as the tumult of destruction and creation which accompanies India`s economic boom transformed the face of the city. In Capital, he explores the life-changing consequences for Delhi`s people, meeting with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts. These encounters, interwoven with over a century of history, plunge us into Delhi`s intoxicating, sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation - one that has repercussions not only for India, but for everybody`s future.