Meet the Waghris: The first authority on Delhi’s second-hand clothes

While life in the city changes, a community from Gujarat clings on to bartering second-hand clothes in the city’s Ghoda Mandi for utensils; the trade with diminishing returns helps keep the traders afloat in these uncertain times

The music has stopped for snake charmers

The capital still houses a large settlement of traditional saperas from Rajasthan, who struggle to keep their kitchen fires burning while longing for a return of the good old days when they were valued for their skills

Delhi’s Marriage bureaus with a niche

Niche marriage bureaus are providing a much needed service for those who are HIV positive, deaf, or have Asperger’s disease. Then there is one for alumni of IITs and IIMs and one with an ‘elite’ tag

Reopening old wounds

In Northeast India, politics for decades has revolved around fear of being swamped by Bengalis, and now it’s back in action A visit to Assam and Meghalaya by members of a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the contentious draft Citizenship (Amendment) Bill of 2016 has brought to the fore old fractures between communities that were in […]

Out of the drawing room

The Delhi chapter of Urban Sketchers is discovering the joy of painting as a community instead of staying home alone She takes a pinch of turquoise blue at the tip of her paintbrush and with one stroke composes the first line of the wide blue sky. She pauses to take another look at the magnificent […]