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 -October 8, 2023

The Bollywood great, who celebrates his birthday on October 11, was introduced to acting by his Kirori Mal College teacher Frank Thakur Das

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VIVEK SHUKLA -September 16, 2023

A portrait of King Khan, who was born and raised in the Capital, based on people who saw him in the city, roaming around Bengali Market and Janpath during his student days, and visiting the graves of his parents at Delhi Gate

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VIVEK SHUKLA -September 8, 2023

Pravind Jugnauth’s sister is married to a Punjabi family based out of West Delhi’s Karol Bagh; it is said that the first family of the island nation continues to send Diwali gifts to the Malhotra family

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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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