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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
TopicOld Delhi

Topic: Old Delhi

Photos of the week: Trans Bill protests, Delhi Budget speech boycott & NCR’s palm tree obsession

In Photos of the Week, we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photo journalists, video journalists and reporters.

Sheila Dikshit to Kejriwal, every CM pledged to fix Old Delhi. Now BJP wants NDMC-like teeth

Congress, AAP, and now BJP have promised to rejuvenate the Walled City. Under redevelopment agency SRDC, it’s been Delhi’s oldest political promise and most persistent failure.

From used-car sites to Red Fort: White i20 and its long-winded route from Faridabad to Old Delhi

Doctor Umar un Nabi, along with associate Aamir Rashid, bought the car for transporting the explosives through OLX.

These men from Old Delhi rescued thousands stranded outside Red Fort after bomb blast

‘Some gave money, some didn’t. Everyone was trying to save their lives, how could we ask for money? I must have made around 15 trips in this short stretch,' said a rickshaw puller.

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.

Children are Old Delhi’s newest tour guides. Tourists can’t get enough of them

Want to explore Old Delhi’s lanes and rich history? You can connect with 10-year-old Anabiya, 16-year-old Kajal, 17-year-old Chandni, or 21-year-old Heena.

No baithaks, tehzeeb, shrinking vocabulary—the romance of Old Delhi is coming to an end

Veteran architect Ashok Lal attributed the now irrevocable change in Old Delhi to the influx of trade. First demographic change came with Partition, and the second with the railway station.

No burqa, no men to be wary of—Daryaganj’s Parda Bagh brings women out to laugh, talk, play

Daryaganj’s Parda Bagh is a small, cosy oasis for Old Delhi women. The other public spaces are teeming with men and women who feel unsafe.

Born in a curfew, Old Delhi’s Urdu library runs out of space, funds. 30,000 books & counting

Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library, built as a one-room sanctuary during the 1987 riots, is bursting at the seams with thousands of Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and English books.

Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar is dying. Mughlai sells, not Manto & Mirza Ghalib

More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry.

On Camera

US courts finally say what parents knew all along—social media is built to hook children

Regulation and litigation may correct the extremes, but they cannot replace the everyday discipline of parenting or the gradual development of self-control.

RBI delays stricter trading loan rules as volatility climbs amid Iran conflict

The rules now take effect on 1 July instead of 1 April, the Reserve Bank of India said. New rules may raise cost of raising capital for proprietary trading firms & squeeze profits.

More ‘hits’ than Rheinmetall ever—Ukraine drone manufacturer claps back at CEO’s ‘housewives’ remark

Oleksandr Yakovenko, founder of Ukrainian drone maker TAF Industries, further went on to highlight the growing 'irrelevance' of European defence platforms.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.