Iftar of the year

His son Ankit was killed by family members of the Muslim girl he was in love with, but Yashpal Saxena overcame his grief to organise an Iftar party to spread the message of love Ankit Saxena, 23, was murdered on February 1 this year. He was killed by the family members of a Muslim girl […]

Scholastic view

‘India is the only country that is not overwhelmed by one of the three monotheistic religions. Hinduism has remained the most popular faith of the land since time immemorial,’ says Jan Ross Jan Ross, 50, was the foreign affairs editor at Die Zeit — the leading German weekly long-form newspaper — for 10 years before […]

Violence repels freshers

Whether it is Delhi University or JNU, the unrest widely reported in the media is discouraging students from making Capital campuses their first choice Incident 1: Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, went missing after a brawl with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Mahi-Mandavi Hostel in Delhi on […]

We need space for our library

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library was started on March 21, 1994 by our NGO Delhi Youth Welfare Association, of which I am the president. Our library has around 25,000 books. It boasts a collection of some of the rarest books, some of which are even 600 or more years old, written in Urdu, Persian and Arabic. […]

Don’t stay dry

Here are five places with delightful water bodies that you can visit this summer, before the monsoon hits the northern plains Raneh Falls Imagine an exotic rocky landscape where the stars are singing a romantic song. That’s Raneh Falls, aptly called the Grand Canyon of India. Located about 20 km from Khajuraho, this is a […]

Serving creativity

66-year-old Laxman Rao may seem like your everyday chaiwala, but he is a writer with over 25 works to his name, as even Amazon and Flipkart sell his books on their website In front of Hindi Bhawan at ITO, one of the busiest localities of Delhi, you will always find a crowd of people gathered […]

LANGRA IS KING

An opinion poll conducted by Gurgaon Foodie finds that Langra is the most preferred variety of mango in Delhi-NCR Alfonso or Haapus is seen by many as the king of mangoes in India. But do the residents of Delhi NCR agree? Doesn’t look like it. India has loved mangoes since time immemorial. Seen as one […]

Islands to clean a lake

A conscientious citizen finds a novel and natural way of cleaning a polluted lake. It can be a prototype of an effective way of ecologically cleaning water bodies On World Environment Day, a ban on plastic is sought, as millions of tonnes of plastic is dumped in the ocean each year. The planet is fast […]