the book is a journey to the past of the author. it is difficult to sieve out where the reminiscences end and fiction begins. feast for a reader who loves to know about india and its people. it's the connossieur working at his best. the english man wrote about india better than most of indian authors. his macabre tales are also very interesting.

Read the "Night Train at Deoli". And see if you don't remember an airport, a railway station, a dock ... and a loved one waving goodbye.

Ruskin Bond is the first author I've read who doesn't try to show off his command over the language[english] by using the most difficult words he can find and flaunting his excellent vocabulary.In other words he uses very simple english. When I first read this book the thing that most impressed me was the depth in his writing and his characters despite the simple language. A collection of some touching stories and essays,"Delhi is not far" can be described in just one word - beautiful.

His style of writing and his stories clearly show the Indian in him. On the whole, reading this book was a very satisfying experience.

This sells in Delhi for 345 Rs (less than $10 US), but it's well worth whatever price Amazon is charging for it, and you would definitely want this book before going to Delhi, as well as to use while you're there. I wish there books this good on other cities, like Bombay.

I wish I found this book when I first arrived in New Delhi two years ago. It is an excellent resource for tourists, providing good, specific information on dining, shopping, and sights. I would also recommend it highly for diplomats or businessmen coming to live in Delhi for a time. It gives an outstanding overview of the city, and all that it offers.

The photography is excellent. I found this guide one month before I was due to depart Delhi, and I bought it anyway, for the photographs of the many places in Delhi I had visited while living there.

This is the best travel guide I have read on any city in the world. It helped me lot, and its comprehensive listings and beautiful pictures and drawings were awesome. Great history section that is good reading even if you aren't going to DEelhi. It's a must-buy!

This book traces the history of Delhi from the stone age to the time of the Rajputs. Against a background of the history of India, it meticulously weaves together evidence from stone tools, ancient mounds, pottery, monuments, sculpture, references in literature and legend to reconstruct a comprehensive and lively historical narrative. Written in a style aimed at accuracy as well as clarity, the book will be of interest to historians, students of history, general readers - in fact anybody who is interested in Delhi's ancient past. The text is accompanied by several maps and a large number of photographs which bring alive Delhi's little-known ancient history

This is an excellent resource on nephrological problems prevalent in the Asian countries. It provides an in-depth review of some specific diseases like acute renal failure in India, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The pattern of glomerulonephritis in Japan, Taiwan and other countries of the region has been reviewed in detail. I find the book very interesting and useful for rare tropical problems like snake-bite and leptospirosis and also for the problems of malnutrition and tuberculosis in relation to renal disease. The contributors are internationally renowned nephrologists who have in-depth knowledge of these specific problems. I would like to see more monographs on renal diseases relating to tropical countries.

For those who seek high adventure travel reading, Bunny Knott's "Backwards Into Delhi" is a must. From the first page to the last, her accounts of her Indian travels are memorable. Just when I was sure that I had read her quintessential Indian experience, several pages later she would top it with another. This continues throughout the book as she details her and her husband's travels in more than two dozen cities and towns throughout all the major regions of India. Their low budget travel style took them far off the usual tourist track and included rickshaw rides, bus rides, train rides, cheap hotels and local food vendors, all of which add to this highly entertaining book.

From Buzzy Moves In to Exploring the Town to Romance and Adventure, this series by Hoffman portrays the best about what life used to be in small town America. Buzzy lived the kind of childhood we all wish for our children, full of adventure, mischief and ingenuity, as well as profound friendship. The reader is taken back to a simpler time when the greatest threat was a raid by the local town bullies. Engrossing reading!

This book is a wonderful collection of stories (based on true fact) which illuminate the young life of the author and his companions in a small town in the Catskills. Great for children of all ages (and adults!), the adventures of Buzzy and the River Rats intrigue and delight. Buy it for your kid's collection!

This is a very complete workbook that explains the process of getting all your items together for the lawyers and for you own peace of mind. It contains worksheets for getting everything from the marriage certificate, and childrens birth certificates, to where is the money, stock portfolio, and insurance policies. I really liked the household inventory worksheets. This made dividing up the martial assest easier for me and for my ex-husband and saved us time and lawyer fees too. I think that this is a must have book for the person getting a divorce or for anyone who wants to get their life in some kind of order.

If you are looking for map for delhi, this is the best thing money can buy. I was born in delhi and has lived for last 27 years but even then I found the map very helpful and keeps it in my car all the time.
Eicher have done a good job with both the layout and accuracy. They have one large map that shows the entire city and then about 50 small maps dividing the city in that many parts. This allows one to first get an overall view of the route one is planning and then zoom on to the exact street. The resolution is good enough to locate the exact plot in most localities. The accuracy is so good that I am yet to notice a single mistake.
The fact that they have also included maps for adjoining suburbs of delhi (like noida, gurgaon, faridabad and gaziabad) helps a lot. I actually used the map to plan my home purchase in NOIDA to compare locations (in context to nearby markets, schools, large roads) of places I was considering to buy.
The only complaint I have is against the binding of the book. The pages have a tendency of getting a little loose after frequent handling (or may be I use it a little TOO frequently). In any case, I expect a map book to be able to take a little more heavy handling than this one.
Nevertheless, where it matters, in details and accuracy - this book scores and I have no hesitation in giving it five stars.

As someone who lives and works in New Delhi, I've often thought that Raj Path (the Central Vista) reminded me of Washington DC and Paris, and now my suspicions have been confirmed thanks to Volwahsen. I've been to most of the prominent buildings built by the British in New Delhi and the author does them justice. The book is beautifully illustrated and supported by numerous maps and photos. The text is well-written and knowledgable.

My only criticism (a minor one) is that Volwahsen at times assumes that the reader has more than a general knowledge of architecture. For example, he frequently refers to the "stupa" without ever really defining it (a sort of Buddhist roof style). I would have added an appendix with a listing of architectual terms used along with definitions and context.

This should not detract from anyone's decision to read Volwahsen's work, however, as he has done a masterful job. I heartily recommend this book.

Khushwant Singh is the Master of Bawd ! This novel is the product of twenty-five years of his libidinal excursions into literature. As he says in the foreword, he has injected liberally, in this interpretation of the history of Delhi, the stores of his seminal fluid. Only a master of the language like Khushwant Singh can write such an erudite thesis on the expulsion of wind from the nether orifices - the chapter on farts is a masterpiece. The weaving of the past and the present with a characteristic Khushwant-style bawdy humor, can be appreciated truly only by the denizens of Delhi, who have grown up reading his novels, articles and jokes. But I highly recommend reading this masterpiece from the author of The Train to Pakistan. Only true Khushwant Singh fans can appreciate the untying of the Pyjama Cord of History that he has attempted in this novel (like his heroes who invariably open the heroine's pyjama cords).

He has dealt with subjects which I had no idea exhisted in Delhi. I understand this book is out of print. A have a copy available practically as new. I would like to sell if a good offer is given.

The book starts early in this millenium, and with each alternate chapter proceeds through the centuries until the present time, alternating with chapters based in the present. The chapters dealing with the past are fanstastic especially if you know the city of Delhi and have curiosity about its history. The story is told from the viewpoints of various characters, with different styles, and is really a marvelous read.

unfortunatley the parts dealing with the present (or within the last 50 years) are rather lame. Only the first and the last chapters that tell of the present are must reads. The rest are quite forgettable and quite disturbing to the sensibilities of many.

But despite this, the book has to be read by anybody who is interested in how India took its present shape over the centuries. If you don't care about the History of India, skip it.