History

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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Vivek Shukla -August 27, 2023

A small symbolic grave in Royal Cemetery, laid for the victims of Japan Airlines, which crashed in Delhi in 1972, may attract the heads of Britain, USA, Brazil, Germany, Australia and Japan

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Vivek Shukla -August 21, 2023

BRICS, Africa and ASEAN Gardens offer a variety of roses, peace and tranquility in the heart of the capital

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 15, 2023

The Partition refugees settled in different places on arrival, and started gurudwaras, markets and schools. Some of the establishments even had ‘refugee’ in their names

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VIVEK SHUKLA -August 15, 2023

Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them

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