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

Silent sentinels of a heritage of respectability

Members of the intersex and trans communities, called khwajsaras in the Mughal era, made huge contributions to Delhi’s history. The architectural wonders they left behind still survive but the significance of this heritage is getting lost with time

Tracing the queer elements: Life and works of Ameer Khusrow

Pride Month seems an apt time to recall the love of Ameer Khusrow Dehlawi, the great poet and Sufi mystic, for Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. His outpourings became an integral part of Hindustani literature and are still re-enacted during Basant Panchami

When walls tell stories: Delhi through its art murals

What is similar between the streets of Brooklyn and those in Delhi? The answer lies in the murals painted on the walls of the the last housing colony built by the British: South Delhi’s Lodhi Colony

The books that have readers hooked in Delhi

What is Delhi reading this summer? As the heatwaves kept people indoors, they picked up titles that caught their fancy – and might interest Patriot readers. 

Gond redefined: a conversation with Padma Shri Bhajju Shyam

When in Delhi, many art enthusiasts often find themselves awestruck with the works of the various local artists that the capital brings in together through its art galleries and open-air exhibitions. Gond art is one such indigenous art form which originates in Madhya Pradesh. What do the Gond artists offer that entices so many?