After the contractor withheld his wages for months, a mason succumbed to burn injuries, making a dying statement blaming his boss. Will the police act on it? With losing his mother when he was just two years old, to being sent away to his elder brother’s home right after, Arshad didn’t have the average childhood. […]

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While IPS officers lord it over plush offices that would do a CEO proud, humble constables and SHOs slog it out in bare structures, writing your complaints in a register with ballpens Hierarchy: a system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. Even today, an embedded […]

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Patriot caught up with former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit to know more about her life, her take on the ongoing political tussle in the capital, the pressing need for curbing pollution and more A little away from Lutyen’s Delhi, in a green and quite neighbourhood, lives the former Chief Minister of Delhi — Sheila Dixit […]

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The guard at the gate welcomes me in, showing the way up the stairwell leading to Dr Kiran Seth’s home on Lucknow Road in North Delhi. Inside, there is an old world charm along with piles of freshly done laundry and books. The founder of SPIC MACAY walks out of his kitchen, wearing track pants […]

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They feel racism is a two-way street: what if they went back and treated Indians the same way in their continent? The anger is palpable. Not sadness, not shock, just plain anger. The two office-bearers of the Association of African Students Union in India (AASI) that Patriot met, talk about two objectives. One of creating […]

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India’s only F1 track in Greater Noida has not hosted the Grand Prix for five years but is kept buzzing with all kinds of events. Will this formula keep it afloat? On the outskirts of Delhi, is where rows of apartment complexes, some occupied and many under construction, lead the way to the Buddh International […]

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What’s in a name if it can’t allow you to vote? AAP alleges that lakhs of voters’ names are missing from Kalkaji, Tughlaqabad and Bijwasan Ashwani Bhogal, his wife Poonam and mother Jharna Devi, find themselves in a precarious situation. Their names have been deleted from the voters list — a right that 65-year-old Jharna […]

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The ‘first copy’ looks just like the original brand. The ‘second copy’ has a similar-sounding tag. Delhi’s grey market flourishes Nike’s advertisements are inspiring. People at their fittest, running and playing, wearing the coveted sneakers. But these shoes can set you back by anywhere from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 for a pair of Jordans […]

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