Where fantasy comes to life

The three-day Comic Con event last week was a big hit among Delhiites. A special guest was Vladimir Furdik, who plays Night King on Game of Thrones The very entrance to the large gates read “SUPERHEROES ENTER HERE” and “SUPERVILLAINS ENTER HERE” and the walkway was adorned with a large blow-up figure of a minion. […]

‘Don’t spare the men who burnt me’

After the contractor withheld his wages for months, a mason succumbed to burn injuries, making a dying statement blaming his boss. Will the police act on it? With losing his mother when he was just two years old, to being sent away to his elder brother’s home right after, Arshad didn’t have the average childhood. […]

A deadly pressure

Hypertension leads to 9.4 million deaths each year globally. Of these, 1.1 million deaths occur in India. In Delhi too, the cases of hypertension are rising every year Himashree Pandey, 32, lost her husband in 2016 when he suffered a stroke because of hypertension (high blood pressure). “Vikrant was just 35 years old. He was […]

Anatomy of road rage

Way too many people have been killed on the roads of Delhi following altercations caused by the most trivial reasons – 222 in the last three years Angry people seem to drive on the roads of Delhi, where there are more cars than the population of many big European cities. At the slightest provocation, this […]

Run like hell – away from the smog

With the deteriorating air quality in Delhi, it is becoming extremely difficult for professional marathoners to run in the capital On Sunday, December 9, New Delhi witnessed the 3rd edition of the Super Sikh Run, one of the most prestigious half marathons in the country. The half marathon, which started from the Rakabganj Gurudwara to […]

Fat weddings told to go on diet

Marriage celebrations have become a convenient venue for ugly display of wealth. The Kejriwal government proposes some restrictions Celebrities from all over the world queued up for the wedding of Mukesh and Nita Ambani’s daughter Isha with Anand Piramal. Participating in the week-long extravaganza were film stars, diplomats, politicians, even America’s former secretary of state […]

Unsubtle social order

While IPS officers lord it over plush offices that would do a CEO proud, humble constables and SHOs slog it out in bare structures, writing your complaints in a register with ballpens Hierarchy: a system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. Even today, an embedded […]

When lawyers flout High Court orders

Signboards on every lamp post ban people from parking. Yet these top lawyers claim they are not flouting rules, some blame their drivers, some just say they are innocent. But Patriot witnessed and photographed the illegal activity From an auto rickshaw driver to a parking attendant, a traffic police constable to a senior advocate, one […]