Culture & Books
Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them
[…]Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots
[…]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
[…]The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus
[…]Kathika Cultural Centre, which recently hosted a monsoon festival, is looking to promote the art and culture of old Delhi
[…]Prithviraj Road, which hosts several bigwigs in the Capital, was also the abode of India’s business icon, JRD Tata, who would stay here during his jaunts to Delhi
[…]Jogen Chowdhury has been a trendsetter in the world of art. At an exhibition in Delhi, he reflects upon the ‘physicality’ of his art and what ideologies mean for artists
[…]Anjum Hasan’s latest novel, History’s Angel, describes the life of a middle-class school teacher and his family in contemporary Delhi
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