By K. Ashwin E-mail: indianshowbusiness@gmail.com, Mob: 00919920183006

India’s leading lifestyle bookstore along with Hachette India hosted the launch & reading of Krishan Partap Singh’s book ‘Delhi Durbar’.
 
Amit Varma, author of My Friend Sancho was in conversation with the author.

About the Book

‘I was taught to take everything I could by any means possible without feeling any sense of remorse, and that coloured the way I saw the world, a world where the strong stomp on everyone below them and doing good is for the naïve. I had been accidentally groomed to meet the requirements of the economic miracle that hit India in the early nineties, where the needs of the individual finally began to be addressed and seen as important, even necessary.

Amit Varma & Krishan Partap Singh

Capitalism started seeping into our very marrow and socialistic gangrene seeped away, having only found a place in history as a wellintentioned failure. Nehru’s dream was finally dead and I think I helped deliver its death knell…’

In the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi – as politicians, powerbrokers, media moguls, and bureaucrats go peaceably about their business of amassing unlimited personal wealth – occasionally getting ensnared in their own webs of scandal and sleaze – the President of India, an exarmy chief, throws everyone into shock by defying his rubberstamp status and threatening to establish military rule.

Krishan Partap Singh

Only Jasjit Sidhu, his sometime son in law, erstwhile corporate banker and money launderer, and newly returned to India as personal financial adviser to Prime Minister Paresh Yadav, can bring him to heel. Brilliantly plotted and bitingly written, Delhi Durbar is an astute and gripping political novel, in which the outrageous twists and turns of the empowered corrupt, and their fiercely selfserving agendas makes for a political thriller of a uniquely Indian flavour.

About the Author

Krishan Partap Singh was born in Chandigarh in 1976. As a diplomat’s son, he spent his childhood in Cairo, New York and Ankara, finally completing his schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. He then attended the Stern School of Business at New York University after which he worked for Merrill Lynch in Dubai. He lives in New Delhi. 

About Crossword

Crossword is India’s leading bookstore chain, which has pioneered the lifestyle bookstore concept in India. Crossword was ranked the 6th most admired retailer in India by Business world for the year 2006; it was the only book retailer in the top 10.Crossword won the Reid & Taylor Award for Best Retailer of the year – Leisure & Specialty at the India Retail Summit 2005 & 2007& 2009.Crossword won the Retailer of the Year Award – Leisure (Books, Music and Gifts Category) at the Images Retail Awards 2005 & 2007.Crossword received the Federation of Indian Publishers Award for excellence in Publishing for the year 2004 on 18th June 2005 at the hands of Shri Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development.

Launched in 1992, Crossword currently has 56 stores across 11 cities in the country in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Vadodara. Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary Company of Shopper’s Stop Ltd – India’s leading department store chain. The Holding Company inter-alia also acts as a Master Franchisee of the Company.