VIVEK SHUKLA

No Urdu in walled city’s Urdu Bazaar

No Urdu in walled city’s Urdu Bazaar

The iconic Urdu Bazaar that once housed bookshops thronged by lovers of the language, is now packed with restaurants selling…

February 3, 2024

Gandhi’s final act: A quick visit to Mehrauli

The iconic Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki Dargah in Mehrauli was vandalised in the aftermath of Partition, but Gandhi’s visit to the…

January 27, 2024

Remembering the person behind the first Republic Day of India

Badruddin Tyabji, the grandson of freedom fighter and third Congress President by the same name, was entrusted with arrangements for…

January 26, 2024

Republic Day: City residents will miss Delhi tableau

Delhiites who have grown up watching Dilli Ki Jhanki, during R-day Parade will miss it this year as the panel…

January 25, 2024

Delhi Brotherhood Society to establish school in Sonipat

The society, which established the St. Stephen’s College in the late 19th century, is setting up a school at Rai in…

January 10, 2024

Why Brazilian President inspires CP’s shoe shiners

The energetic shoe-shiners have been an important part of Connaught Place for years and relate to Lula Da Silva 

January 6, 2024

Experts, historians object to proposal to remove Sunehri Masjid

The mosque got its name from Sunehra village, on which the Sunehri masjid now stands; it was redeveloped by Hakim Ajmal Khan, a Congress President,…

January 4, 2024

Why Ghalib was buried so far away from his abode

Mirza Ghalib’s final resting place, far from his home, is better maintained than the graves of two of the other…

December 27, 2023

Christmas special: Old Christian neighbourhood buzzes as December 25 approaches

Delhi is home to many denominations of Christians, each having a church of its own with established even before independence

December 24, 2023