Customised rakhis for women flavour of the season

Girls look for customised options not just for brothers but sisters too as shopkeepers selling traditional designs struggle for business

Friendship in gardens of diplomacy

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

Delhi celebrates Teej with dance, swing and dangal

As the festival unfolded, it painted a picture of the multifaceted nature of celebrations

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

Tale of two Delhi poets and the Pak national anthem

Poet Jagannath Azad, who wrote the first national anthem of Pakistan on Jinnah’s request, shifted to Delhi from Pakistan, while Hafiz Jalandhari, whose anthem was later adopted by Pakistan, moved to the new country from Delhi

When Premchand penned Kafan in Delhi

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