India, June 12 -- Mirza Ghalib, Khushwant Singh, Maheshwar Dayal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Ahmad Ali, H.C. Fanshawe , Quli Khan, H.K. Kaul, Percival Spear, RV Smith, Madhur Jaffrey, William Dalrymple, Sadia Dehlvi, James Joyce, Narayani Gupta, Manju Kapoor, Malvika Singh, Rana Dasgupta, Swapna Liddle, Rakhshanda Jalil, Rana Safvi, Sam Miller, Pushpesh Pant, Akhil Kaltyal, and Pradip Krishen, and so many others. They all happen to be writers, and all of them have something of Delhi in their oeuvre.

The nit-picking fact-checkers might pick on one of these names, objecting that this writer has got nothing to do with Delhi. They have a point. Even so, no matter wherever you might walk in Delhi-NCR-Jacobpura in Gurugram, or Turrab Nagar in Ghazia...