Friendship in gardens of diplomacy

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

Taking refuge in prayer, business and education

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

The forgotten refugees who landed in Delhi after Partition

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

When Connaught Place showrooms were set on fire

Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots

When Premchand penned Kafan in Delhi

The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus

The Prithviraj ‘JRD Tata’ Road

Prithviraj Road, which hosts several bigwigs in the Capital, was also the abode of India's business icon, JRD Tata, who would stay here during his jaunts to Delhi

End of an era: Authors’ space shuts down

The 'South Indian Restaurant' in Karol Bagh was the meeting point of renowned Hindi and Punjabi writers, including one Sampuran Singh who went on to become Bollywood lyricist Gulzar

Architect of Capital’s fortune

Rana Man Singh, who built landmarks such as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, which has now been renamed, seems to have been forgotten