Synopsis Delhi has been compared to the phoenix that rises from the ashes of its previous self. Paradoxes and contrasts abound in this old-young city. City Improbable brings together travellers’ tales—from the medieval narratives of Ibn Battuta and Niccolao Manucci to contemporary ones of Jan Morris, eyewitness accounts of crucial events in the city’s turbulent history and vignettes of the different stages in the building of the city. But more than the physical boundaries, this anthology illustrates the states of mind of people who lived here and live here today. Edited and with an introduction by Khushwant Singh, City Improbable brings together the best written about Delhi over the millennium, a collection as diverse, lively, sometimes serious, sometimes richly humorous as the city itself.