PositiveAsian Review of BooksAmbitious ... Delhi is rendered with an accuracy that feels almost archaeological ... Where the novel is most illuminating is in its portrait of characters that a younger, more globalized generation of Indians would dismiss with a mildly condescending \'uncle\' or \'aunty\' ... Unremitting bleakness is the novel’s one real liability. Mahajan does not flinch and does not relent, and there are stretches where the cumulative grimness becomes its own kind of monotony. The prose is always controlled, always precise, but precision without occasional release can start to feel airless.
