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’
Posts by: VIVEK SHUKLA
Of Manto and Delhi’s longest bus ride
Mori Gate, where Saadat Hasan Manto used to live during his time in Delhi, is also the starting point of Delhi Transport Corporation’s longest bus ride
Icons on the road
Delhi has statues of many historical personalities that may interest world leaders like Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin and Rishi Sunak during the G-20 summit
Labour of love a footnote in pages of history
Labourers from West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Odisha who built the new Parliament are likely to be forgotten; much like the labourers of Rajasthan of the old Parliament who have been rendered invisible in pages of history
Nehru’s first house in Delhi
7, Moti Lal Nehru Marg has memories attached to India’s first Prime Minister who lived there before shifting to Teen Murti House