Dalrymple:
City of Djinns is definitely mind improving, full of fascinating facts for
QI fans. I find his style a bit plodding, hard to get as excited as one should
discovering things like Maya ( standard software for producing virtual
buildings) being the Gods’ architect in the Mahabharata (Mulciber, fallen angel
then death-eater, was the architect of Hell in Paradise Lost). The snippets
about eunuchs, familiar to anyone who’s travelled in India, are interesting,
but he never explains why so many, & why nowhere else in the world. Are
they castrated at birth as it’s a lucrative way of live? Or are there masses in
the rest of the world, hiding their secret? A must for anyone visiting Delhi
with a serious interest in history.
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