VIVEK SHUKLA
The writer is a Delhi-based senior journalist and author of two books ‘Gandhi's Delhi: April 12, 1915-January 30, 1948 and Beyond’ and ‘Dilli Ka Pehla Pyar - Connaught Place’
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Taking refuge in prayer, business and education
The Partition refugees settled in different places on arrival, and started gurudwaras, markets and schools. Some of the establishments even had ‘refugee’ in their names
The forgotten refugees who landed in Delhi after Partition
Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them
When Connaught Place showrooms were set on fire
Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots
Tale of two Delhi poets and the Pak national anthem
Poet Jagannath Azad, who wrote the first national anthem of Pakistan on Jinnah’s request, shifted to Delhi from Pakistan, while Hafiz Jalandhari, whose anthem was later adopted by Pakistan, moved to the new country from Delhi
When Premchand penned Kafan in Delhi
The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus
The Prithviraj ‘JRD Tata’ Road
Prithviraj Road, which hosts several bigwigs in the Capital, was also the abode of India's business icon, JRD Tata, who would stay here during his jaunts to Delhi
End of an era: Authors’ space shuts down
The 'South Indian Restaurant' in Karol Bagh was the meeting point of renowned Hindi and Punjabi writers, including one Sampuran Singh who went on to become Bollywood lyricist Gulzar
Architect of Capital’s fortune
Rana Man Singh, who built landmarks such as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, which has now been renamed, seems to have been forgotten