This book grew out of a grainy combination of despair and delight that afflicts the residents of every Indian city. Delirious City is as much a collision of various mediums as it is of mixed messages, concocted out of a desperate urge to make sense of the City, its residents, their aspirations, and their perennial expectations. Its aim is to rile and provoke the reader with a disparate arc of writing, drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture and relieve the mood in satire. Daily life, events, places and personalities--houses, builders, parks, malls, bureaucrats, politicians, the rich, the poor, the labourer and the liquor baron--all are condensed as a virulent strain of muddled voices that describe our civic reality.