How do you define Delhi?

For that matter, can you define any city in the world?

Can you define a city like Delhi?

How do you define a city as old as Delhi, one that has witnessed as many changes as Delhi? Benares is an older city (I will write about my visits to the Benares region in mid-June), but it has an unbroken cultural thread as a Hindu city that most, if not all, Hindus revere.

I started studying Delhi’s history when I did a …