Hyderabad storyteller Yunus Lasania and heritage walk curator Dolan Samanta led a heritage walk earlier this month that unpacked the history of how Delhi and the Deccan were deeply connected.
At Delhi’s Partition Museum in Delhi, Vinod Nagpal, Sohail Hashmi, Kamlesh Jacob, and Satish Jacob recounted memories of the vibrant mohallas and forgotten flavours of 1950s Kashmere Gate.
The 1857 capture of Delhi was planned, not a sudden uprising by ‘angry men’, said oral historian Sohail Hashmi at his talk ‘1857 Rebels Reach Delhi’ at INTACH.
As Delhi heads to polls on 5 February, the RSS remains a strong cultural force, but its political wing BJP has struggled to gain electoral dominance. ThePrint explores this paradox.
The launch of Seema Sethi’s coffee table book 'Romancing The 80s: Snapshots From A Cherished Decade' transported the participants back to the old era of Delhi.
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Swapna Liddle's lecture at IIC Delhi kicked off a series of events titled History of Water in Delhi: Politics, Prosperity, Culture and Belief. She said that water served a civilisational feature but was often overlooked.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Well begun but the end leaves one yearning for more bytes on the intertwining of the histories of Delhi and Deccan. The Asafjahi Kingdom of Hyderabad Deccan was in itself a continuation of the Mughal rule by proxy , though the Mughals themselves had disappeared gradually after Aurangzeb.
Well begun but the end leaves one yearning for more bytes on the intertwining of the histories of Delhi and Deccan. The Asafjahi Kingdom of Hyderabad Deccan was in itself a continuation of the Mughal rule by proxy , though the Mughals themselves had disappeared gradually after Aurangzeb.