The food ambassador

Hugo Wang has devoted his life to popularising Taiwanese food in Delhi with the ‘right balance’ For the Indian palette Hugo Wang, 36, a chef who belongs to a reputed family of chefs from Taiwan, has a strange love for Delhi that defies logic. Sometimes, particularly in the case of Hugo, logic has its own […]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Music in the moonlight What: Soak in in enchanting Sufi music this weekend. Teamwork Arts presents the finale of the three-part monthly concert, ‘Under the Banyan Tree on a Full Moon Night’ which will showcase traditional classical and folk music. The artist will be performing under the banyan tree with the minarets of the Qutub […]

Dusty Delhi

Heat and dust of Delhi are real problems. All-pervasive dust has ensured Delhi remains the most polluted city in the world, whether it’s winter or summer. Is there a solution? Delhi remains the most polluted city of the world, irrespective of whether it’s winters or summers. This year has been uncharacteristically bad. Last week, a […]

Passionate chronicler

Rana Safvi’s book The Forgotten Cities of Delhi is a reminder of our composite culture, manifested in art, music, culture and architecture of the past 1,500 years An outsider is out to reveal the hidden secrets of Delhi, with much success and in quicktime. Rana Safvi’s association with Delhi started only in 2012, when she […]

Age is just a number

A number of senior citizens don’t believe that retirement is an option. And keep working tirelessly to give back to society Vimla Kaul, 83, has been tirelessly working towards educating under-privileged children. Her school-cum-learning centre Guldasta at Madanpur Khadar is where she is providing education, free of cost, for 23 years. She shares with us […]

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. […]

Life lessons from a pumpkin

Swati Mohan’s dance theatre festival in Gurgaon talks about being ourselves instead of constantly worrying about being someone else A pumpkin is a pumpkin. It doesn’t worry about being anyone else. This is the premise behind Danza Performing Arts’ ninth annual summer dance theatre festival this weekend titled ‘Be a pumpkin. It’s great’. “It’s all […]

Metro must prevent harassment

It was around 9 pm. I was travelling from Rajiv Chowk to Kirti Nagar Metro station. In my coach, I witnessed a disturbing incident: Two boys were constantly teasing a girl. The girl tried to protest, but the boys kept on harassing her. They were even touching her hair. The girl warned them, sternly saying, […]