Netherfield Ball – The Super-Duper Crowded Show at Arundhati Roy’s New York Book Launch, Brooklyn Academy of Music City Parties by The Delhi Walla - August 20, 2017August 20, 20171 The party secrets. [Photos by Paulsta Wong; text by Mayank Austen Soofi] As an Arundhati Roy fan, The Delhi Walla went last year to the faraway South Indian town of Ayemenem, the setting of her first novel, The God of Small Things. You can see the evidence of my visit here. Early this year, I managed to gain entry into the society of fashionable people in Delhi as they discreetly gathered to celebrate Ms Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. You can see the evidence here. A few weeks later I was in London to experience Ms Roy novel’s official launch in the crowded Gothic-style Union Chapel (the next day Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn address his last election rally from the same stage). You