A poor man sold the jewellery of his beloved to build a Taj for her. An extraordinary story of love and loss…. Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi famously wrote about the Taj Mahal, Ek shahanshah ne daulat ka sahara le kar, hum girbo ki mahubat ka udaya hai mazaka (One emperor, with support of his wealth, […]

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People die mysteriously and live dangerously along the railway tracks, which are also a venue for festivals, drinking, dining, dating and even marriage Under the Defence Colony flyover, a dirt road leads to the railway track. Nearby, for those who know the area well, is a tandoori chicken shop and an outlet for booze. People, […]

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Rahul Gandhi means business. He’s confronting the prime minister in his own bastion, that of political theatrics Rahul Gandhi, 48, means business. As president of the Indian National Congress, he has been taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly on a host of issues. Last month, he hit the streets, even courted arrest. No wonder, […]

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An Italian scholar who has made Delhi her home. Her association with India is deep and rewarding. she has made many friends… Young Italian scholar Elena Valdameri did her PhD on Mahatma Gandhi’s political guru Ram Krishna Gokhale from the University of Milan. She’s currently pursuing her post-doctoral research on modern Indian history with ETH […]

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My home hosted people coming from all over the world and was a venue for conversations in the nude where people bared their mind and body Some of my friends call the place I have resided at for the last 15 years, which I am now about to leave, ‘a mausoleum of nudity.’ Far from […]

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Gopi Sundar and Swati Kittur are doing world-class research on big birds and their ability to co-exist with humans. Recently they were in Australia for an arduous project KS Gopi Sundar and Swati Kittur, a couple from Bangalore, make an incredible team. They mostly nest in Delhi or Udaipur, if they are not flying across […]

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The tallest statue in the world — the Statue of Unity — was unveiled recently. Patriot revisits the making of the Statue of Liberty, which stands at half its size, but was the greatest engineering marvel of its time Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the gigantic statue of Sardar Patel on his […]

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Though Tendulkar is still way ahead statistically, Virat Kohli’s recent achievements have been so extraordinary as to merit a comparison with the ‘God’ of cricket Mumbai and Delhi are two cities that have dominated the Indian cricket scenario like no other, since decades. While the former has produced legendary batsmen like Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin […]

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