Perpetual City Quotes

“The movingly delicate traditions like mehndi and vatna have been structured and are impersonal society events.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Gautam Bhatia, an eclectic architect, wrote a series of articles for India Magazine on ‘Punjabi Chippendale’ and ‘Sindhi Baroque’ that well described that period of real estate growth.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“The disease stared to permeate life and living.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“C-DOT, the forerunner to direct long distance dialling that connected village India to the mandi and more,”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“The neta and the babu were parallel lines of power.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Our young generation came together regardless of cultural differences, language, caste or colour on the back of the music of the moment and the international dress code of blue jeans.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Real India is uncomfortable without tactility, colour, noise and human chaos, all jostling together with unaffected abandon.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Social hierarchies were not obvious and all that mattered was what people did, and how well they did it. Merit was all. Bombay was the intellectual artery, the business capital, and the cultural nerve centre of free and liberal India. Aspiration brought the young and unknown to Bombay.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“History should come alive and be an intrinsic part of the life of contemporary Delhi. Instead, it is fenced off, and we are forced to peer at our monuments from a distance. They remain crumbling cold edifices rather than spectacular arenas for energetic living cultures to thrive on and grow, adding value to the lives of new generations of Dilliwallahs.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Building on the remains of the past, dreaming of a possible future is what makes Delhi, Delhi.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“The city crept into its shell but did not die. It bided its time, and when the time was right, layered over the damage caused by yet another foreign power and carried on.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Qila Rai Pithora, often described as the first citadel and capital of Dilli.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“I moved to Delhi from Bombay in the 1950s, and was immediately struck by the broad avenues”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“At its most resplendent, parts of the city merge into a single, diverse and historic cityscape that encompasses time immemorial, through a subtle, delicate, nuanced tapestry of cultures.”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“founded in the lee of an ancient range of hills in eighth century by a Tomar Rajput chief called Suraj Pal,”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Capital to successive empires, and the independent Indian republic, Delhi”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City

“Perhaps there is nothing that makes the greatness of a city more palpable than its food,”
― Malvika Singh, Perpetual City