Burst of flavours at ‘Sovereign’ food fest

The India Grill at Hilton Garden Inn Saket recently hosted an Independence Day-special food festival, which was a spectacular spread of local delectables from Kerala to the Himalayas

Boom in NCR’s shared office spaces

There has been a drastic increase in demand for co-working spaces in Delhi NCR since the pandemic, as the concept offers flexibility to scale up or down depending on the market conditions

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

India’s 77th Independence Day: Blending patriotism with livelihood

As India marks its Independence Day, the stories of some vendors selling flags and Tricolour merchandise underscore the blend of patriotism and daily struggles of earning a livelihood

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

Independence Day: Monuments awash in colours of the nation

Delhi's monuments bathed in the Tricolour ahead of August 15

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