Keeping up the ancestral traditions
Around 6:45 am at the Guru Jasram akhada in Jasola Vihar, the warmup session has already started. Guru is seated...
Culture & Books
Ghalib ki Haveli: Where poetic memories linger
Among the poets patronized by the Mughal emperors, Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869) stands out as a consummate versifier among other famous...
Zeenat Mahal: Where once a queen lived, girls are being groomed for the future
Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Lal Kuan – or Zeenat Mahal School, as it is called locally – stands as a living...
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...
Doha Movement – Resurrecting a lost art
Rahiman dhaaga prem ka todo mat chatkaaye Toote se phir na mile, mile gaanth pad jaaye (Don’t snap off the...
Silent sentinels of a heritage of respectability
The term khwajasara traces its roots back to the forts and harems of the sultans and Mughal emperors of Delhi....
Tracing the queer elements: Life and works of Ameer Khusrow
Man qibla raast kardam ber terf-e-kajkulaahey (I have straightened my qibla, the direction in which one prays, in the direction...
When walls tell stories: Delhi through its art murals
The Lodhi Art District is easily accessible from Jor Bagh Metro station. Since it was first painted in 2015, it...
The books that have readers hooked in Delhi
India bagged its first ever International Booker Award this past week. It is the first time a book written in...