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Sashikala VP -May 24, 2018

ALMOST ONE CRORE PEOPLE WILL BE ADDED TO THE BURGEONING POPULATION OF THE CAPITAL CITY. WE ARE LOOKING AT CRIPPLING TRAFFIC, OVERFLOWING SLUMS, WADING THROUGH GARBAGE, AND SEWAGE ENTERING OUR FOOD “There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that […]

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Proma Chakraborty -May 24, 2018

Music in the moonlight What: Indulge yourself in an enchanting evening of music this weekend. Teamwork Arts presents a special concert, ‘Under the Banyan Tree on a Full Moon Night’ which will showcase traditional classical and folk music. The artist will be performing under the banyan tree with the minarets of the Qutub Minar in […]

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Shaunak Ghosh -May 10, 2018

Alim Khan sits every day in A Block of Delhi’s iconic Connaught Place playing his heart out on his flute, hiding his sorrows behind those tunes and dreaming of making it big in Bollywood Connaught Place, the capital’s favourite hangout spot, will greet you with its maze of white buildings, the buzz of the crowd […]

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Mihir Srivastava -May 10, 2018

For long, we have known that the Yamuna during its flow through Delhi is highly polluted. What comes as a surprise is that electronic waste is now at least partially responsible Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 6, 2018

Why Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is on an apology spree, tendering amende honourable to many of those who slapped defamation cases on him There’s a joke going viral on social media: the new spelling of apology is ‘AAP-OLOGY’ – the pun is at the expense of Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 6, 2018

Reacting to traders holding the city to ransom while protesting against the recent sealing drive, the apex court observed, “Is there a rule of law?”   There’s great inertia in Delhi to implement reforms. Some hidden forces seem to guide the government. The multiplicity of agencies, the three tiers of government, have recently been at […]

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Mihir Srivastava -April 6, 2018

Sandbags, bunkers and overwhelming presence of armed constabulary gives the impressing that Delhi’s a police state. But it’s not easy to secure a city of Delhi’s proportions and complexities A denizen of Delhi, irrespective of his or her social status, cannot miss one fundamental fact of existence: the ominous presence of security forces with guns […]

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Sashikala VP -March 23, 2018

‘Be quiet and stand in a corner!’ the Centre seems to be telling those who want to be in the vicinity of Parliament to raise issues their MPs don’t care about Some say angrily that it is an “undeclared emergency,” a strangling of democracy. Others say it is an attempt to silence dissent, to “thwart […]

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