Review from The New York Times Magazine
(15 Jan 2012):
“Short Reviews”
“Fullest, most vivid portrait of a city in years.” Read more >
Interview in The Hindustan Times
(5 May 2012):
“Delhi is the Friendliest City We’ve Lived In”
“Everyone is starting to recognise the role India will play in the world’s future. Also, there’s nothing better than Indian food. The food is the number one reason Jenny and I wanted to live in India. ” Read more >>
Review from DNA India
(22 Apr 2012):
“Delirious Delhi: Inside India’s Incredible Capital”
“Prager writes with comic warmth. It’s impressive how much he’s gotten beyond the surface of Delhi as it may appear to foreigners, and sunk into the city’s marrow. There’s humour, curiosity, and an eagerness to learn more, experience more, live Delhi more. Prager ties up ends beautifully.” Read more >>
Article from The Wall Street Journal: India
(19 Jan 2012):
“Delhi Journal: The Expat Experience”
Review from The Economic Times
(23 Feb 2012):
“‘Delirious Delhi’: An expat’s 18-month journey”
“Expats often face challenges in Delhi but for US-based adman Dave Prager, the joy of living here far outweighed these challenges so much so that he tries to demystify the city by chronicling how he and his wife experienced: isolated, overwhelmed, and loving every minute of their nearly two-year-long stay. ” Read more >>
Review from The Tribune India
(19 Feb 2012):
“Capital Unbound”
“The observations of the couple from New York give us new insights into what should be completely familiar to us. ‘Are we really like that?’ We ask while chucking at Dave’s funny but observant insights. ‘We are’, is the answer we would give ourselves if we are honest.” Read more >>
Review from ForgotToGrowUp
(7 Mar 2012):
“Delirious Delhi- Book Review”
“Almost everything which Delhi has, has been captured beautifully and aptly by Dave. His observation and insight in understanding and depicting Delhi behaviour is something which is the soul of this book. It is a perfect combination of intelligent reading and adequate dose of humor!” … “Read this if you have ever been to Delhi/ lived here and want to see your life from an outsider’s perspective. It is a feel good book!” Read more >>
Review from The Hungry Bookshelf
(20 Feb 2012):
“Review: Delirious Delhi”
“If you are thinking of moving to, or visiting New Delhi (or even India in general), then I would highly recommend reading this book. His observations and accounts are 100% accurate and straight to the point, and it is incredibly refreshing to know that what you are experiencing yourself is actually true!” Read more >>
Article from The Displaced Nation
(24 Jan 2012):
“Talking with author Dave Prager about his — deliriously unspiritual — expat experience in India”
“Reading like the work of a hipster Bill Bryson” Read more >>
Review from The Book Review India
(12 Jan 2012):
“Expat in the City”
“It’s an extensive collection of observations and anecdotes ranging from the hilarious to the harrowing, neatly tied together with bits of well-researched trivia and Prager’s signature good humour. And that’s what makes this book: the candid, unpretentious and completely open-minded attitude with which the author writes.” “…there are plenty of spot-on observations and laugh-out-loud moments to tickle the funny bones of Delhiites and expats alike.” Read more >>
Brief review on Marginal Revolution
(11 Jan 2012):
“What I’ve been reading”
“An excellent book on India, an excellent book on a city, and an excellent book on Delhi, all rolled into one. Unlike many travel books, it tells you a lot about the city.” Read more >>
Live author chat with CNN IBN (4 Jan 2012):
“What Delhi is to outsiders: author chat with Dave Prager”
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Book review by The Times of India (21 Dec 2011):
“A firangi in India? How novel!”
“For a firangi, Delirious Delhi is full of useful – and often hilarious – information about the city and its people; and for a Delhiite, there’s the opportunity to see India through the fresh eyes of an outsider. Equal entertainment (and learning) on both parts, probably.” Read more >>
Book review by Time Out Delhi (19 Dec 2011):
“Delirious Delhi”
“His investigations into the habits of Dilliwalas are acute and amusing. Prager’s account is also different from some others in that he actually had a job (with a commute to Gurgaon – we feel his pain), and describes working in a multinational company’s office in hilarious detail. These anecdotes, and others about Steeves’ non-profit work, hold plenty of pithy insight. Expats: send this one to your friends abroad to give them an idea of what you’re going through.” Read more >>
Book review by Flash News Today (19 Dec 2011):
“Delirious Delhi”
“In this brilliantly written book, the author uses the various shades of his Delhi experience to build a story for us — thereby making us see Delhi in altogether a different and exciting light.” Read more >>
Book review by The Sunday Guardian (18 Dec 2011):
“Dissenting views of south Delhi”
“Prager has a broad sense of humour that usually works, his enthusiasm is infectious and I enjoyed his obsessive interest in such things as the intonations of the word “bhaiya” by women trying to hector sabzi-wallahs.” Read more >>
Book review by Big Eyed Fish (18 Dec 2011):
“Expat Book Club”
“…you would know that the author writes extremely well, with a knack for observing the many absurdities of the city and its dwellers with a sharpness that perhaps only a stranger can possess. The same great writing continues in the book, which makes it a pleasure to read.” Read more >>
Book review by Mumbai Boss (12 Dec 2011):
“Despicable Delhi”
“With a sense of humour that can only be described as Jewish, Prager serially skewers Delhi’s peccadilloes. He astutely identifies traffic-light begging as “trickle-up economics”, noting that “money earned by Delhi’s poorest moves inexorably upward into the pockets of those who have power over them”. He finds the root of the practice of “gora evasion”—when foreigners will pretend not to notice one another on the street—in preserving, against all appearances, the illusion that there are still mysteries remaining to be uncovered.” Read more >>
Article in Times of India (12 Dec 2011):
“Foreign Flavours”
Event review by Angela Carson (11 Dec 2011):
“Delirious Delhi: Curious Book Launch Event”
Article by Dave Prager in The Indian Express’s Eye Magazine (11 Dec 2011):
“An expat’s guide to surviving Lutyens’ Delhi”
Interview from The NRI (6 Dec 2011):
“Delirious Delhi!”
Review from About.com (5 Dec 2011):
“New Book About India: Delirious Delhi”
Review from The Pioneer (5 Dec 2011):
“I was working twice here in half the deadlines’”
