Sam Miller, in his own words, is a rare phenomena in Delhi: the 'foreigner on foot.' After studying History in Cambridge and Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, Miller has worked with the BBC as editor, Current News Affairs, South East Asia. But he has now declared Delhi his home, and has just come out with a Penguin novel, Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity. In an interaction with the Delhi Newsline team, he shares some of those adventures—from a shit squirting 'scam', on how South Delhi doesn't know West Delhi, the reasons why Congress won, and the city which has shaped his life:

•Shailaja Bajpai: You were first posted in Delhi in 1990's and then you came back to the city in 2002. Taking us back to the walks that you took in '90s, tell us something about the difference in walking in Delhi since then.

Sam Miller: I did not like Delhi very much when I first lived here. One of the things that I found difficult here was to very hard to walk here. It's still not terribly easy now. But it was really difficult for a foreigner. I would try to walk across the roads and people would block the roads with auto rickshaws, taxis. There were no proper maps of the city in those days. And I felt rather constrained and constricted within Nizammudin where I lived in.

I returned to Delhi in 2002 end and moved into an office in Gopaldas Bhawan in CP and started exploring the area during lunch time. And there was an Eicher map that covered Delhi pretty well. Gradually, I began to explore the city. I hated Vasant Vihar where I lived, which was just full of foreigners but had nothing going for it. I startiShailaja Bajpai: You were first posted in Delhi in 1990s and then you came back to the city in 2002. Taking us back to the walks that you took in '90s, tell us something about the difference in walking in Delhi since then.

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