This week on The Lit Pickers, we’re exploring a capital idea. Let us take you on a time-slipping tour of Delhi, home to scholars and poets, Sufis and crazy rich Indians. It’s a place where seven cities are constantly re-learning and re-membering how to create a space for both those in the centre and on the margins. It’s India’s  political capital, and also the jewel of the Mughal Empire; it’s Lutyens’s creation, and the dream of its bureaucrats. Join us on this literary ramble of an episode, the podcast equivalent to a stroll through Lodi Gardens in autumn.

You can find Supriya Nair at @supriyanair and Deepanjana Pal at @dpanjana on Instagram. 

If you have any books, reading or literature-related questions, please email us at contact@maed.in. 

For a list of all the books mentioned in the season so far, check out: https://thelitpickers.fanlink.to/books

This is a Maed In India Production; check us out at www.maedinindia.in. 

Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas

Project Manager: Shaun Fanthome

Head of Audio: Kartik Kulkarni

Producer: Meghna Gulati 

Sound Editor: Lakshman Parsuram

Artwork: Alika Gupta

Theme Music: Easy Wanderlings - Here’s to You