Culture & Books

VIVEK SHUKLA -May 4, 2024

Recalling the Bollywood showdown for New Delhi: Kaka vs Shotgun

Recalling the Bollywood showdown for New Delhi: Kaka vs Shotgun

Late Rajesh Khanna’s win in the 1992 Lok Sabha by-election for the New Delhi constituency revealed his popularity among Delhiites; it, however, also impacted his friendship with co-star and BJP rival Shatrughan Sinha

Idrees Bukhtiyar -April 25, 2024

Pay for box, not books

Pay for box, not books

A startup with a unique concept, 'Story Box', offers affordable reading experience with thousands of books available in a pay-per-box format

VIVEK SHUKLA -April 7, 2024

Can Delhi think beyond caste, regional lines while voting in 2024 Lok Sabha election?

Can Delhi think beyond caste, regional lines while voting in 2024 Lok Sabha election?

Political parties in the national capital have over the past few years patronised a few communities and ignored the others, despite the city having been built by generations of migrants from all parts of the country

Vivek Shukla -March 23, 2024

IK Gujral’s eye-witness account of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s funeral

IK Gujral’s eye-witness account of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s funeral

Former Prime Minister late IK Gujral, one of the few people in post-Partition India to have seen the legendary freedom fighter’s last rites, once broke down while recalling that fateful March day in 1931

Shailaja Khanna -March 19, 2024

‘Music in the Park’ breathes fresh life into classical music

‘Music in the Park’ breathes fresh life into classical music

Organiser Rashmi Malik conceived the idea to reach out to an audience that would not perhaps go to a concert hall; she has succeeded

VIVEK SHUKLA -March 16, 2024

Apartments in Delhi-NCR lose ‘desi’ touch, get foreign feel

Apartments in Delhi-NCR lose ‘desi’ touch, get foreign feel

While housing societies and areas established before 1990 had indian-sounding names, post-liberalisation era spawned complexes in Gurugram and Noida with European names to attract expatriates and the global Indian

Yusra Nazim -March 9, 2024

Election Museum: Cherishing India’s electoral legacy

Election Museum: Cherishing India’s electoral legacy

The museum at Kashmere Gate is an ideal place to learn about the evolution of the world’s largest democracy

Idrees Bukhtiyar -February 29, 2024

Ramleela in Urdu: A message of brotherhood, equality and inclusivity

Ramleela in Urdu: A message of brotherhood, equality and inclusivity

Dastaan-E-Ramayana: Ramleela in Urdu was performed by the Shradha Ramleela Committee, a Faridabad-based theatrical group at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi during the four-day Jashn-E-Urdu festival which concluded on February 25