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 -January 26, 2024

Badruddin Tyabji, the grandson of freedom fighter and third Congress President by the same name, was entrusted with arrangements for the inaugural Republic Day celebrations in 1950

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VIVEK SHUKLA -January 25, 2024

Delhiites who have grown up watching Dilli Ki Jhanki, during R-day Parade will miss it this year as the panel tasked with approving the tableaux of various states and UTs disapproved of the Capital’s proposal

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VIVEK SHUKLA -January 10, 2024

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -January 6, 2024

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -January 4, 2024

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, in the early 1920s

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VIVEK SHUKLA -December 27, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -December 24, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -December 23, 2023

The national capital is home to various Christian denominations; each has a church of its own; some of the places of worship are as old as 200 years

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