Foreword: From spatial experience to experienced space : representations, recollections and reproductions of the urban spaces in Indian literature / Mustafa Zeki Çirakli -- Introduction : writing cities : appropriating the urban in Indian literatures / Subashish Bhattacharjee and Goutam Karmakar -- City's deity : exploring the urban and sacred space in Anita Desai's voices and the city and Journey to Ithaca / Deeptangshu Das -- Khushwant Singh's Delhi : a multi-layered projection of an anthropomorphised city / Sarani Ghosal Mondal -- Diasporic return to Calcutta in Mukherjee's The Tiger's daughter and days and nights in Calcutta / Rima Bhattacharya -- Stories by the sea : memories and space in Amit Chaudhuri's Friend of my youth / Sayan Aich Bhowmik -- '...Not exactly fear, but unease, an apprehension' : flânerie and the tactics of survival in Baumgartner's Bombay / Rupayan Mukherjee -- Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis : the networked city / Amrutha Kunapalli -- At home in city (?) : Reading the destabilising new city in Raj Kamal Jha's She will build him a city / Kuheli Singha -- The radical, the bourgeois and the alienated in the city in Neel Mukherjee's The lives of others / Nilanjan Chakraborty -- Discovering new cities and their underbellies within the old : seeing the periphery of Kolkata through the lens of Kunal Basu's Kalkatta / Avijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai -- Palimpsestic jungle/jumble : visceral urbanism in Rajat Chaudhuri's Hotel Calcutta / Subhadeep Paul -- Mumbai queered : perils and pleasures of the sexual metropolis in murder in Mahim / Somdatta Bhattacharya -- 'Botanising on the Asphalt' : towards an alternate cityscape of Delhi and its urbane citizenry in Ravish Kumar's Ishq Mein Shahar Hona / Rajarshi Roy -- Rohinton Mistry's city by the sea : a place to call home? / Natacha Lasorak -- Urban spaces and fading culture in Mamang Dai's fictions : a postmodern reading of city life / Debajyoti Biswas -- Evolution of heterotopic space : unearthing the toxic cityscape in Indra Sinha's Animal's people / Somasree Sarkar and Neha Kumari -- Cosmopolitanism and trade relations : analysing the port city of Muziris through Sethumadhavan's The saga of Muziris / Maya Vinai and Revathy Hemachandran -- 'Cities imprison and kill the blood' : exploring the politics of the representation of the country and the city in Rabindranath Tagore's Red Oleanders / Arnab Chatterjee -- Girish Karnad's consideration of 'urban spaces' for his plays / Jolly Das -- A tale of two cities : showcasing the façade of the Indian metropolis in Manjula /Padmanabhan's Lights Out and Harvest -- City, space & spectacle : Parsi Theatre's Indar Sabha / Sib Sankar Majumdar -- Imagery of revolt and withdrawal : the city-country interface in the poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla and Adil Jussawalla / Baisali Hui -- 'How can she feel at home in so many places?' : city, home, and diasporic subjectivity in Sujata Bhatt's poetry / Joyjit Ghosh -- When a city speaks : tracing the voices and visions of Mumbai in Gopal Lahiri and Sunil Sharma's cities : two perspectives / Goutam Karmakar -- Liberating the cursed city : looking through Jiddu Krishnamurti and Sisirkumar Ghose / Goutam Ghosal -- Journey from alienation to integration : travel, urban space, and chronotope in Bharati Mukherjee's days and nights in Calcutta / Basundhara Chakraborty -- Psychogeographies : urban space and situationism in Suketu Mehta's Maximum city : Bombay lost and found / Ujjwal Kr. Panda.