Rahool Joshi

“Whoever has built a new city in Delhi has always lost it: the Pandava brethren, Prithviraj Chauhan, Feroz Shah Tughluk, Shah Jehan ... They all built new cities and they all lost them. We were no exception.”
― William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

“For all its faults we love this city.’ Then, after a pause, she added: ‘After all, we built it.”
― William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

“But on balance I think you must never take land away from a people. A people’s land has a mystique. You can go and possibly order them about for a bit, perhaps introduce some new ideas, build a few good buildings, but then in the end you must go away and die in Cheltenham.’ Iris sighed. ‘And that, of course, is exactly what we did.”
― William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

“the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.”
― William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi