OLD DELHI — NEW YORK: PERSONAL VIEWS (Roli, Rs 1,495) by Cyrus S.H. Jhabvala is a portfolio of watercolours and pencil drawings of the two cities this senior Delhi architect is familiar with and fond of. They look like realistic depictions, but are a mix of observation, memory and fantasy. This makes their claim to historical documentation somewhat dubious; besides, none of the images is dated. The work is technically precise, but undistinguished, being of a standard expected of any good architect. Left: the Pan-Am (now Met-Life) building on Park Avenue in New York (note arm on the left, throwing out a magazine, recording an incident the painter saw happening while sketching the scene). Top right: a street scene in Old Delhi. Bottom left: Old Delhi’s Fakhr-ul-Masjid, built in 1728 by Begum Fakhr-ul- Nissa in memory of her husband, the Nawab Shujaat Khan. Bottom right: a view from the 51st Street at First Avenue, New York.