Bade badaayi na kare/ bade na bole bol/ Rahiman heera kab kahe lakh taka mor mol. This simple doha or couplet by medieval Hindi poet Abdul Rahim Khan-i-khanan on the virtues of humility is perhaps the best description of the poets own tomb.
This Christmas, one of the ‘senior-most’ Santa Claus of the city will pass on his mantle to someone younger. Some 20 years ago, Peter Wells, an Anglo-Indian from Kolkata and then staying at Karol Bagh...
At a recent India-Pakistan cultural programme, a traditional qawwali session saw the Pakistani all-male qawwali troupe perform face-to-face with the all-women qawwali troupe from Delhi...
On a winter morning, walking through the Qudsia Bagh can be therapeutic. The inter-state bus terminus is almost intruding into this 18th century Mughal garden, yet once inside, the noise that one hears is from a different world.
Coins that his mother gave him every Diwali initiated young IT professional Nikhil Ranjan into numismatics. “My mother is a history teacher and instead of gifting the usual Lakshmi-Ganesh coins...
Time was when Connaught Place was dotted with well known photo studios. People would come all the way from Kalkaji in south Delhi to get a ‘good’ photo taken at Rangoon or Shimla...
