TEAM PATRIOT BRINGS TO YOU THE CITY’S MOST HAPPENING EVENTS. TAKE A LOOK AND PLAN YOUR WEEK AHEAD Remembering Manna Dey What: ‘Zindagi kaisi hai paheli haye, Kabhi toh hasaye, kabhi yeh rulaye’… This alluring song from the famous film “Anand” reverberates in our mind even today. Bollywood’s legendary singer Manna Dey has immortalised many […]

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About a decade ago, a young mechanical engineer left his job to pursue his dream — to make a mark in the theatre scene in Delhi and to experiment with different genres. Now, Sunil Rawat is one of the founder-members of Saksham Theatre Group, which for the past nine years has been holding a theatre […]

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The culinary force behind the Kylin group is Executive Chef Lenam Lepcha. His culinary career truly began to flourish after completing his Hotel Restaurant Management degree from Siliguri Hotel School.  He worked in a variety of hospitality outlets ranging from hotels to restaurants, absorbing nuances and specialties of ethnic cuisine, particularly Pan Asian. Chef Lenam’s […]

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Confessions of a broken heart, in a haze of alcohol and tumbling memories that refuse to go away even in the cold harsh light of day It’s 2 am on Thursday. I wake up with a terrible headache, courtesy of all the drinking of the past few days. It has started to rain, crazy mid-November […]

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Delhi Commission of Women chief Swati Maliwal’s tenure has been the journey of an activist. She is now on indefinite hunger strike demanding capital punishment for rapists In past 30 months, the DCW conducted rescue operations in Delhi’s red-light area, raided illegal liquor vendors in Delhi and campaigned for women’s safety. Can the Centre agree to […]

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The government must formulate the national security and force development strategies and allocate the budget needed to create the desired capability In 2010, Stephen P Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta wrote the bestseller, Arming Without Aiming. They argued that India had the ambition to become a great power. Consequently, the country was motivated to reform and modernise […]

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You can fly. Or you can get astride your hardy bicycles to pedal down tarred roads to coveted destinations, regardless of the harsh elements and the lack of creature comforts Curiously, not one but two books about cycle yatras have come out in the last couple of months. The recurring theme suggests that even in […]

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IT IS LITTLE KNOWN THAT ISLAM GIVES THE THIRD GENDER THEIR OWN NICHE IN HISTORY, AND THAT ENUCHES FREQUENT TWO MAJOR SHRINES TO THEIR PATRON MOINUDDIN CHISTI IN DELHI, BESIDES PRAYING IN MOSQUES AS MEN Faith is important for eunuchs. All their lives, while they face rejection by society, they find acceptance in Islam. They […]

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