In old Delhi - New York: Personal Views C.S.H. Jhabvala offers a unique and historically valuable record of two cities– Delhi with its crumbling stones preserved among the explosions of new technologies and New York with yesterday's marvels of modernity trumped by today's bigger and more astonishing ones. He has the shrewd, sharp, critical and deeply affectionate eye of someone entirely familiar with both places through years of living in them. With a superb degree of talent, both as an artist and architect, he presents an original and personal visual observation accompanied by a wittily written text.
