Culture & Books

Heritage walks: Pathways to a lost past

Heritage walks: Pathways to a lost past

Delhi is rich in its history and the multitude of mysteries that come with it. The memories of the city…

July 7, 2022

Keeping up the ancestral traditions

As the country is posing to be normal amid the rising Covid-19 cases, Patriot takes a deep dive into the…

August 22, 2022

Ghalib ki Haveli: Where poetic memories linger

Fascinated by the Mughal era? At this museum, you can soak in the atmosphere of Mughal architecture, admire Urdu calligraphy…

June 25, 2022

Zeenat Mahal: Where once a queen lived, girls are being groomed for the future

Walking through the congested Lal Kuan Bazaar in the Walled City, one can easily ignore the remnants of  Mughal grandeur.…

September 24, 2022

Exhibition: Ecstatic realm of truth and beauty

Lokayat Art Gallery presents solo exhibition titled ‘Ecstatic World’ which will display 45 paintings of Sultana Marium, a Bangladeshi Canada-based…

August 22, 2022

Doha Movement – Resurrecting a lost art

With its first event titled ‘Ba-Yaad e Ijteba Rizvi’ and held on 2 October 2021, started what is arguably the…

September 17, 2022

Silent sentinels of a heritage of respectability

Members of the intersex and trans communities, called khwajsaras in the Mughal era, made huge contributions to Delhi’s history. The…

June 12, 2022

Tracing the queer elements: Life and works of Ameer Khusrow

Pride Month seems an apt time to recall the love of Ameer Khusrow Dehlawi, the great poet and Sufi mystic,…

June 8, 2022

When walls tell stories: Delhi through its art murals

What is similar between the streets of Brooklyn and those in Delhi? The answer lies in the murals painted on…

June 3, 2022

The books that have readers hooked in Delhi

What is Delhi reading this summer? As the heatwaves kept people indoors, they picked up titles that caught their fancy…

June 2, 2022