The killing of Munna Bajrangi inside Baghpat jail by another incarcerated gangster may have been a political settlement of sorts Ever since the Yogi Adityanath government started hunting down gangsters in various parts of Uttar Pradesh (UP), many of the absconding gangsters made a beeline to surrender, fearing they would meet the same fate. For […]

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A political scientist by training, Gilles Chuyen settled in Delhi 24 years ago in pursuit of his passion – dance. It soon became the ‘medium’ of his spiritual quest French national Gilles Chuyen has lived for 24 years, exactly half his life, in Delhi. He wears many hats, is a dancer, choreographer, actor, director, writer […]

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Outraged, the people of Delhi have taken to the streets to protest against the felling of trees, 16,000-odd, for redevelopment of seven localities in South Delhi. Courts have stayed the massacre as of now. The struggle continues…. People of Delhi tend to fight for their rights while various agencies that run Delhi are in a […]

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Hugo Wang has devoted his life to popularising Taiwanese food in Delhi with the ‘right balance’ For the Indian palette Hugo Wang, 36, a chef who belongs to a reputed family of chefs from Taiwan, has a strange love for Delhi that defies logic. Sometimes, particularly in the case of Hugo, logic has its own […]

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Bharati Chaturvedi is the founder and director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group and is a prominent voice against the culling of trees in Delhi. Excerpts from an interview: Delhi, the world’s most polluted city, is rather keen to get rid of 16,500 trees to add more real estate. How can the world’s most […]

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Heat and dust of Delhi are real problems. All-pervasive dust has ensured Delhi remains the most polluted city in the world, whether it’s winter or summer. Is there a solution? Delhi remains the most polluted city of the world, irrespective of whether it’s winters or summers. This year has been uncharacteristically bad. Last week, a […]

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Rana Safvi’s book The Forgotten Cities of Delhi is a reminder of our composite culture, manifested in art, music, culture and architecture of the past 1,500 years An outsider is out to reveal the hidden secrets of Delhi, with much success and in quicktime. Rana Safvi’s association with Delhi started only in 2012, when she […]

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Britta Petersen is one of those yoga practitioners who didn’t need an international celebration to kickstart her journey into spirituality. The journalist, social worker and entrepreneur was always a seeker of nirvan Britta Petersen was a Nirvana seeker from an early age. She has tried many things in her quest for enlightenment. In the process, […]

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