History

Vivek Shukla -March 23, 2024

Former Prime Minister late IK Gujral, one of the few people in post-Partition India to have seen the legendary freedom fighter’s last rites, once broke down while recalling that fateful March day in 1931

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Idrees Bukhtiyar -March 9, 2024

The museum at Kashmere Gate is an ideal place to learn about the evolution of the world’s largest democracy

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Yusra Nazim -February 12, 2024

During Shahjahan’s era, the bazaar specialised in luxury goods, including Silk, Brocades, Velvets, Gold and Silverware, as well as jewellery and gems, catering to the imperial households

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Tej Prakash Bhardwaj -February 10, 2024

Dikshu Kukreja, head of CP Kukreja Foundation for Design Excellence, explains why the university campus could be considered a microcosm of Delhi

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VIVEK SHUKLA -February 3, 2024

The iconic Urdu Bazaar that once housed bookshops thronged by lovers of the language, is now packed with restaurants selling meat dishes with Urdu missing even from the sign boards

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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 -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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