If you’ve ever lived or visited Delhi, you will love this book. It’s a wonderful window into everyday life with a generous heap of humor.

Here’s an excerpt that anyone who has tried finding their way around New Delhi or Really New Delhi (like me, earlier this year) will readily identify with:

Soon after turning the NOIDA Expressway the driver spotted a Vespa moped with a Domino’s box on the back and pulled up next to it at a red light.

“Brother, where is Galden Geens Galfing?” he shouted in Hindi to the delivery boy over the sound of a noisy diesel truck.

His question was met with an abrupt upward motion of the hand and a questioning squint of the eyes.

“Galden Geens Galfing, Galden Geens Galfing” repeated the driver.

The delivery boy’s puzzlement suddenly gave way to comprehension. “Aaah! Golden Greens Galf Carse!”

“Ji!”

“Sectorrr forty-tooooo!”

“Brother! Where is forty-tooooo sectorrr?”

‘Near Tulip High School!”

“Where is Tulip High School?”

“Near Om Garden!!”

“Brother, where is Om Garden?”

The delivery boy scowled and shouted in an amalgam of English and Hindi, “Past Eros Cinema, sectorrr nineteen! Turn right at traffic light to BPO Phase three! Enter farty-too through backside!”

Excellent read :)