Leather hunters

Leather designers, including many from Delhi, are in huge demand thanks to film industry’s growing interest in period films

Unmasking the real identity

Solo exhibition by Viraj Khanna showcases people’s tendency to exaggerate and embellish their everyday reality

Politics of garbage

The Ghazipur landfill is a monument of government’s failure to deal with civic issues and of an impending ecological disaster in the capital. The apex court wants the L-G to act and not ‘pass the buck’ This is not new. Multiplicity of agencies are blamed for inaction in Delhi, people in power shun responsibility when […]

M for Monkey, S for Snake…

Denizens of the wild have found ways to survive in Delhi for decades. Resilient survival instincts made them adapt to life in the metropolis, some even thrive Wildlife in Delhi. Sounds like an oxymoron. For the species in question are not lizard, spider or rat, but jackal and fox, monkey and langur, porcupines, snake and […]

Monster city

ALMOST ONE CRORE PEOPLE WILL BE ADDED TO THE BURGEONING POPULATION OF THE CAPITAL CITY. WE ARE LOOKING AT CRIPPLING TRAFFIC, OVERFLOWING SLUMS, WADING THROUGH GARBAGE, AND SEWAGE ENTERING OUR FOOD “There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that […]

Events of the week

Music in the moonlight What: Indulge yourself in an enchanting evening of music this weekend. Teamwork Arts presents a special 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 Minar in […]

Pied Piper of CP

Alim Khan sits every day in A Block of Delhi’s iconic Connaught Place playing his heart out on his flute, hiding his sorrows behind those tunes and dreaming of making it big in Bollywood Connaught Place, the capital’s favourite hangout spot, will greet you with its maze of white buildings, the buzz of the crowd […]

Woeful flows the Yamuna

For long, we have known that the Yamuna during its flow through Delhi is highly polluted. What comes as a surprise is that electronic waste is now at least partially responsible Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed […]