Heritage at your fingertips

The Safarnama app helps tourists discover lesser-known monuments along with a peep into history It’s an uneventful evening at Jama Masjid area in New Delhi. Shoulder-to-shoulder is an understatement, as pedestrians walk purposefully towards their destinations. This is where the phone’s Safarnama app gives an alert that there is a heritage point within a 100-metre […]

Fading footsteps

Whatever happened to the Son et Lumiere at Red Fort and Old Fort? One is in suspended animation and the other plays to thin audiences. tourism suffers In the city of monuments, one may marvel at different architectural styles but it is the back stories which are more intriguing. At Red Fort and Old Fort, […]

Farm to fork

There is a reason why Punjabi food is such a hit in remote corners of India and places faraway in the West – the flavours are to die for SHUBHAM BHATIA @ishubhambhatia   The thing about Punjabi food is that we all are too familiar with it if you are in North India. Naans, curries […]

Non-Gully boys of Delhi

Middle-class, architecture graduates, public school educated — rappers in the Capital seek to break the template created by Mumbai Rap music is gaining a lot of ground in the country, thanks to the two emcees from the mean streets of Dharavi, Mumbai whose music gave birth to the film Gully Boy. Now that the movie […]

Blockbuster narrative

Movie Moghul of another kind, founder of Netflix Marc Randolph spins a fascinating tale in which the reader finds herself rooting for him to succeed as the action plays out scene by scene Stories about successful businesses have one common factor: They expect the reader to believe that it wasn’t luck that turned an idea […]

Dubious freebie

WITH A promise to make India’s capital city entirely digital, the Delhi government led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced in its manifesto before coming to power that it will provide free wi-fi service across the city. But that is still a work in progress and the wi-fi which Delhiites receive is via New […]

About time traffic violators felt the pain!

The amended Motor Vehicle Act that imposes hefty fines of traffic violators is an absolute necessity in Delhi. But infrastructure in the form of proper signages, smooth roads, functional street lights and correctly designed zebra crossings must also be put in place On June 2, 5:30 in the morning, like every Sunday, 86-year-old Jasmeet Singh […]

Nuke the idea!

An apartment block under construction in Delhi is being marketed with a USP — it will have a nuclear bunker. Which provoked Patriot to find out what the rest of us can do to save ourselves in case of a nuclear war Less than a kilometre from Shadipur Metro station, in a setting unlikely to […]