When History Haunts a City: Monuments & Memory with Eric Chopra

What does it mean for a city to be haunted?In this episode of The Reading List by Bahrisons Booksellers, Aashna Malhotra speaks with historian Eric Chopra about his book Ghosted and the strange afterlives of Delhi’s monuments.Through sites like Jamali Kamali, Firoz Shah Kotla, Khooni Darwaza, and Malcha Mahal, they explore how places gather memory, myth, and meaning over centuries.Moving between folklore, archival research, and lived experience, the conversation looks at historical erasure and public memory, and asks an enduring question: what happens when the past refuses to stay in the past?