Indian National Flag hoisted at 150 ASI monuments to flutter permanently

The national flag was hoisted at 150 heritage sites across India on the 76th Independence Day on Monday to mark the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav'.

A thousand flights in the Delhi sky

A folk sport, that continues its legacy since the Mughal times, still fascinates the national capital. Despite changing circumstances, the tradition thrives on. Patriot speaks with kabootarbaaz in Delhi to understand their love and dedication for the sport

Heritage walks: Pathways to a lost past

Delhi is rich in its history and the multitude of mysteries that come with it. The memories of the city that was once known for its exquisite gates seem quite different from the way we see it today. Patriot talks to people ardent about heritage walks to understand their motivations and aspirations

Keeping up the ancestral traditions

As the country is posing to be normal amid the rising Covid-19 cases, Patriot takes a deep dive into the lives of emerging wrestlers who are preparing for the upcoming dangals

Ghalib ki Haveli: Where poetic memories linger

Fascinated by the Mughal era? At this museum, you can soak in the atmosphere of Mughal architecture, admire Urdu calligraphy and visualize how a poet used to live and work at his desk, preparing for an evening of recitals in the emperor’s court.

Zeenat Mahal: Where once a queen lived, girls are being groomed for the future

Walking through the congested Lal Kuan Bazaar in the Walled City, one can easily ignore the remnants of  Mughal grandeur. Hidden somewhere between the famous kite shops of the area and other old and new stores, stands the doorway between a promising future and a long- forgotten past

Exhibition: Ecstatic realm of truth and beauty

Lokayat Art Gallery presents solo exhibition titled ‘Ecstatic World’ which will display 45 paintings of Sultana Marium, a Bangladeshi Canada-based artist. Her paintings explore a personal world that signifies a feminine sense of belonging to the environment, a flux of the inner world experienced and filtered by a woman’s organic sensorial system. The necessity of […]

Doha Movement – Resurrecting a lost art

With its first event titled ‘Ba-Yaad e Ijteba Rizvi’ and held on 2 October 2021, started what is arguably the most recent literary movement in Delhi - the Doha Movement. It aims at reviving the lost art of Doha writing- a classical form of self-contained rhyming couplet used by poets like Kabir, Rahim, Tulsidas and others