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 -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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VIVEK SHUKLA -July 11, 2023

Rana Man Singh, who built landmarks such as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, which has now been renamed, seems to have been forgotten

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VIVEK SHUKLA -June 29, 2023

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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VIVEK SHUKLA -June 17, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -June 11, 2023

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

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VIVEK SHUKLA -June 3, 2023

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

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