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Capital : A portrait of twenty-first century Delhi

Dasgupta, Rana2014

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Driving along the dusty, congested roads of central Delhi gives no sense of the verdant landscape behind the high walls that line them: it is only when you ascend, for instance, to the top of the Taj Hotel, that you can look down and see that these roads are but arid strips through an enormous expanse of green. The several-acre lawns of the politicians' bungalows add up to a great garden tract of their own. The Mughal tombs at either end of the Lodhi Road have expansive grounds of lawns and fountains; between them is the pleasent botantical sprawl of Lodhi Gardens, home to diplomatic joggers and unmarried lovers, who go - the lovers, that is - to hold hands and kiss under its bushes/