Cartographical Tales: Unveiling India’s past through maps

Explore the art and history of India’s evolving geography through a unique exhibition of rare and intricate maps

Recalling the Bollywood showdown for New Delhi: Kaka vs Shotgun

Late Rajesh Khanna’s win in the 1992 Lok Sabha by-election for the New Delhi constituency revealed his popularity among Delhiites; it, however, also impacted his friendship with co-star and BJP rival Shatrughan Sinha

IK Gujral’s eye-witness account of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s funeral

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

Election Museum: Cherishing India’s electoral legacy

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

The OG Meena Bazaar inside Red Fort!

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

JNU: A microcosm of Delhi’s climate, topography and ecology

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

No Urdu in walled city’s Urdu Bazaar

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

Remembering the person behind the first Republic Day of India

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