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Tracing the queer elements: Life and works of Ameer Khusrow

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

An evening with PMs at Teen Murti Bhavan

Behind the recently inaugurated Prime Ministers' Museum is the design team Tagbin, which believes in narrating India’s history through fascinating…

May 10, 2022

Delhi’s minars: forbidden pleasures

The minars (towers) of medieval Delhi still dominate the skyline of the capital. Half a century ago, they were much…

May 9, 2022

Old churches relate Delhi’s history

Standing in dignified silence amid the chaos of Shahjahanabad are churches that stand today as relics of shared history, especially…

April 28, 2022

Old Delhi’s Charti Lal Goel park serves a stroll through Mughal heritage

While the park was inaugurated on 20 March by President Ram Nath Kovind, a close friend of Goel, it still…

April 1, 2022

Viking traders may have visited Gujarat, claims Dr Cat Jarman

Cat Jarman was at the 2022 Jaipur Litfest to hold a conversation with William Dalrymple on the research methods and…

April 6, 2022