HarperCollins India is proud to announce the release of
The one and only book to capture the startling evolution of this emerging megapolis
Releasing on 25th September 2018
‘Highly readable … captures Gurgaon’s messy contradictions with energy and balance.’
– Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound
What Gurgaon Is
Is In The Eye Of The Beholder.
For the aspirational migrant, rich or poor, Gurgaon is the Millennium City, with its sleek malls, sky-scraping condominiums, safe and gracious gated colonies, tenement housing, and life-changing jobs. For corporations, it is the Mecca of opportunity, as countless Fortune 500 companies have flocked to its business towers and parks, at once spacious, elegant and convenient for doing business. For its older residents, a more intriguing fate could not have befallen their small town.
For the media it is the city that makes headlines, often for the wrong reasons – brawls in pubs, crimes against women, dubious real estate transactions, mega traffic jams…
But Gurgaon’s existence began as an obscure hamlet, and it has had several hoary incarnations before it acquired its present density, industry, wealth and civic fabric. It is this tangled tale, more thematic than chronological, that this book tells.
Veena Talwar Oldenburg has been witness to Gurgaon’s astonishing evolution for over twenty years. This volume is the first ever rigorously researched narrative of the city’s making that speaks to readers of modern history, audiences compelled by Gurgaon’s bewildering growth and the very people who made it their home – now and for generations to come.
For more information on the book and the author. Please write to
Aman Arora at Aman.Arora@harpercollins.co.in
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