Over 2,40,000 homeless, not even 300 night shelters

Rain Baseras not only shelter homeless people, they double up as makeshift recovery wards for patients visiting the capital city’s overcrowded hospitals. But there aren’t nearly enough of them. Delhi struggles to save its rough sleepers from the harsh winter RESHMA LIES in a white tent-like structure. Her stomach is slit open, a bag attached […]

Is this the beginning of the irrelevance of Big Media?

Not just anger towards the government, anti-CAA protesters also voiced their resentment against a section of the media PERHAPS I SHOULD rename this column “Heart-breaking News”.  The videos, the news reports in newspapers and on digital news websites, have made it amply clear that the UP government and its police force are going full tilt […]

‘They wanted to teach a lesson in terror’

As right-wing mobs ran riot at JNU on the night of January 5, students allege they were victims of a targeted attack inside the university IN THE middle of a Delhi winter, the temperature at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening of January 5 rose dramatically. At around 6 pm that day, a violent mob […]

No desi Chinese here

For once, get away from the fast food kiosks and head for a place where the cuisine is authentic and the kitchen is in full view WITH A distinct philosophy, aesthetics and menu, The China Kitchen at Hyatt Regency Delhi offering authentic Beijing Street food in a premium dining setting has now ventured outside the […]

CHEF OF THE WEEK

With over 20 years of culinary proficiency, Chef Qu Xue Wen brings a dynamic and innovative energy to TCK’s culinary offerings as the Chef De Cuisine. Chef Wen began his journey in China, building up his initial culinary experience by working diligently with diverse and impressive Chinese restaurants. After obtaining the National Grade II Chef […]

WARDROBE MALFUNCTION

Voices from the fashion industry express distress about the absence of predominantly Muslim workforce because of anti-CAA protests that prevent them from commuting to studios The fashion industry can be described as one that interweaves various colours. From a community of fashion enthusiasts that go gaga over every spring, summer and fall launch from Gucci […]

A colony in which 90% plots are small is called posh

Patriot visits Anant Ram Dairy, one of the 69 ‘affluent’ colonies whose regularisation has been put off indefinitely by the central government, to see whether the tag fits Rakesh Kumar stays in his ancestral property — a small room on the roof — with only one bed and a pretty small bathroom. He goes every […]

Caught in crossfire?

The Bijnor police are unable to give consistent versions of the incidents in which two young men were shot – one fatally At Om Raj Singh’s freshly cemented home in Nehtaur in UP’s Bijnor district, family members sat on the dimly-lit verandah. Singh was recovering from injuries in a Meerut hospital. His brother, Rajvir Singh, […]