A compilation of researched essays, poems and a literary bibliography, Shaharnama maps out diverse intellectual journeys through different cities through history and the contemporary. Although Delhi and Calcutta remain the main focus, you will also find thoughtful material on small town India like Allahabad, Patna and Shahjanpur on the one hand and Beijing and Nigeria on the other.

Contributing authors in this compilation are: Shamim HANIF, Rizwan-ul-Haq, Avinash KUMAR, Amitabh KUMAR, Gautam SANYAL, Vipin BHATI, Brian LARKIN, Ranjani MAJUMDAR, Shuddhabrata SENGUPTA, Naresh GOSWAMI, Rakesh Kumar SINGH, Abhay Kumar DUBEY, Prabhat, Ravikant, Neelaabh, Rajkumar KUNBHAJ, Saumya VARMA, Sumit RAI, Ravinder KUMAR, Sayyed Khalid JAMAAL, K.G. VERMA, Sanjay SHARMA, Avdhendra SHARAN, Aditya NIGAM, Purushottam AGARWAL, Ravi VASUDEVAN, Ravi SUNDARAM, Alok RAI, Gopal PRADHAN, Vinay SHRIVASTAV, Anand Vivek TANEJA, Sadan JHA, Partho DUTTA, Stephen LEIG, Anjali Bharadwaj BHARADWAJ, Ashish NANDI, Prem Kumar TIWARI