Human and social sciences
Ananya Vajpeyi
Place: intimate encounters with cities
In this collection of essays written over 25 years, Ananya Vajpeyi recounts her experience of 13 cities across India and the world, engaging with them as layered spaces where history, memory and meaning converge. Through elegantly crafted narratives, interwoven with cultural insight, political reflection and personal meditation, she evokes the emotional and intellectual contours of each place, offering readers her immersive, intimate encounters with cities she love.
Ananya Vajpeyi is a Professor at CSDS, New Delhi. An intellectual historian, political theorist and writer, she is the author of Righteous Republic, winner of Harvard University Press’s Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize.