The Big Small Town  (English, Paperback, Aarish Chhabra)

This book is about Chandigarh, but not about architecture and its planned bits. It talks about life as it happens in this big/small town, and how the world looks from here. Aarish Chhabra’s first book, it is a collection of stories, first-person accounts, social commentary, and anecdotal pieces, all originally published in the author’s weekly column for the Hindustan Times (2013–18). An inside-outside view of Chandigarh, its culture and its people, the book romances and critiques the city in equal measure, treating it both as a subject and a metaphor.