Posts by: 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’

VIVEK SHUKLA -September 8, 2023

The city had given her refuge and provided her with support after the assassination of her father, mother and several other family members back in 1975

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 15, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 15, 2023

Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 14, 2023

Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 14, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 9, 2023

The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus

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VIVEK SHUKLA -July 29, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -July 15, 2023

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

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