Posts by: VIVEK SHUKLA
Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them
[…]Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots
[…]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
[…]The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus
[…]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
[…]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
[…]Rana Man Singh, who built landmarks such as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, which has now been renamed, seems to have been forgotten
[…]Delhi University’s centenary year celebrations will culminate with its annual convocation of June 30, which will be attended PM Narendra Modi. A look-back at DU’s formative years
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