The 360 villages of Delhi are fading, and with them their histories and ways of life. Now an MCD team, a professor, and an Instagram archive are documenting them before it's too late.
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.
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.
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 16 July 2003, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry on its 150th anniversary in Kolkata, underlining West Bengal’s industrial decline while urging the state govt to create a business-friendly environment.
At the center of the rift is the initial public offering of Tata Sons, which controls a vast collection of companies that do everything from making salt to selling luxury vehicles.
With MIRV, India can target different different locations or the same location with a time gap. This can include decoys to hoodwink the enemy’s defence systems.
These elections mark completion of BJP-secular party divide purely on Hindu-Muslim basis. BJP’s rivals are increasingly looking like Muslim parties though their leaders are all Hindus.
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