Culture & Books
Friendship in gardens of diplomacy
BRICS, Africa and ASEAN Gardens offer a variety of roses, peace and tranquility in the heart of the capital
Delhi celebrates Teej with dance, swing and dangal
As the festival unfolded, it painted a picture of the multifaceted nature of celebrations
Taking refuge in prayer, business and education
The Partition refugees settled in different places on arrival, and started gurudwaras, markets and schools. Some of the establishments even had ‘refugee’ in their names
The forgotten refugees who landed in Delhi after Partition
Buddhist refugees from Chittagong and Namdharis from Punjab have helped make Delhi diverse, but few know about them
When Connaught Place showrooms were set on fire
Connaught Place witnessed carnage in British-owned showrooms in 1942 before seeing similar havoc in 1984, during the anti-Sikh riots
Tale of two Delhi poets and the Pak national anthem
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
When Premchand penned Kafan in Delhi
The celebrated writer wrote the famous story in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus
Romance with the past: A Delhi museum bringing old to the new
Kathika Cultural Centre, which recently hosted a monsoon festival, is looking to promote the art and culture of old Delhi