Raghu Rai's Delhi

Author: Pavan K VarmaPublisher: HarperCollinsYear: Language: EnglishPages: 128ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172230923 DescriptionIn this large size art book with around 100 illustrations, Raghu Rai lends his creative genius to capturing the multiplicity of the city of paradoxes and Pawan Varma with his easy flowing sensitive text sums the historical perspective. Delhi, the seat of power for many centuries, the Hindu kings, the Mughals and hen the rule of the British empire a congregation of varied cross cultures and its historic has carved its own etchings on cultural and socio political landscape of this capital city.Raghu Rai lends his creative genius to capturing the multiplicity of the city of paradoxes. A city where he started his career over twenty five years ago when the magic of his black and white photography captured the spirit of sixties and seventies the change was reluctant but coming.Greater cultural awakening - and the changing culture of new rulers - bureaucrats and babus