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Sunday, April 12, 2026
TopicDelhi history

Topic: Delhi history

Delhi and Deccan are separated only in history textbooks. Trade and power bound them

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.

When Kashmere Gate was Delhi’s campus & chaat hub. ‘There was nothing in CP then’

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.

1857 rebels marched to Delhi with a plan—not a spontaneous ‘chalo maro’, says Sohail Hashmi

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.

Panipat battle to Independence struggle, Delhi was the centre: Swapna Liddle

Held at IHC, the discussion, titled ‘Nashisht: Dilli Jo Ek Sheher Hai’, was centred around the question, ‘Why does Delhi stand out from other cities?’

Shahjahanabad or Lutyens’ Delhi? Panel asks who the real Dilliwallas are

Delhi was humanised, eulogised, and romanticised at an IIC panel discussion. ‘What makes someone a Dilliwala?’ asked historian Irfan Habib

Stronghold of RSS, unwinnable for BJP since 1998—the curious political puzzle that is Delhi

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.

Delhi spends an evening romancing the 80s. Prank calls, fan mail, Nirula’s

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.

INA, Candy, Pandara Market—Englishman Nick Booker is teaching Delhiites their own history

These days, Nick Booker travels around Delhi in a brightly painted auto-rickshaw driven by Alistair Campbell, an Australian who now lives in India. The expat influencer @indogenius is churning one hit reel after another.

Even Tomars and Mughals dumped waste in the Yamuna—Swapna Liddle on Delhi’s water history

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.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

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.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

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.