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Rana Dasgupta expresses a certain amount of wonder at having won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book on Monday evening. It was a surprise. Im delighted to have won the prize. Solo was about a very strange and private process and I did not know how many people the book would reach out to. The prize is a validation that it did, says Dasgupta.
Solo (HarperCollins,Rs 395) is the story of Ulrich,a 100-year-old Bulgarian man,who,having realised that time is running out for him,begins to gather his memories together lest they fade away after his death. Dasguptas next project,however,is a non-fiction book about Delhi ,a city he moved to nearly a decade ago from the UK . Delhi has been described historically and physically but there has been little writing that has reflected on changes the city has undergone in the past 10-15 years or so. More importantly,what do those changes mean for the city and for the world, says Dasgupta,whose first foray into writing about the Capital was when he wrote an eye-opening piece titled Capital Gains for Granta magazine last year. You could say that essay,which was about money,was the start and that will be the style of the book. It will be a quest to discover Delhi through various aspects of human life, says Dasgupta.
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