India, March 26 -- Holi hai! This day of colours ends in hours, but some of the colours of Holi shall linger amid the trees of Delhi (even though the season's red bloom of semal tree is reaching an en... Read More
India, March 23 -- The door's tatty curtain was to hide the once-affluent family's wretched poverty, its threadbare predicament instead exposed its decline. Yashpal's iconic short story Purdah immedi... Read More
India, March 22 -- There's the cart for gol gappe. The other cart is selling nariyal pani. That one is crammed with bananas. The street outside the RK Ashram Metro station looks ordinary. And then you... Read More
India, March 22 -- There's the cart for gol gappe. The other cart is selling nariyal pani That one is crammed with bananas. The street outside R.. K. Ashram metro station looks ordinary. And then you ... Read More
India, March 20 -- Once, this used to be an empty lot littered with the detritus of a collapsed mansion. Then a builder raised a multi-storey. It happened just last year. Everything is changing in Pu... Read More
India, March 19 -- Did he slip away on his own free will? Or did somebody whisk him away? The second possibility seemed more likely to his human friends. After all, the serene Sona was such a handsome... Read More
India, March 18 -- Spring is a season of colours, and colours mean Holi. This year, the festival is falling quite late, on March 25 (it was on March 8 last year). Even so, these days, colours are ever... Read More
India, March 17 -- Outside, Jack Kerouac's poster stares at you from a glass wall. Inside, black shelves are stacked with Nietzsche, Hunter S. Thompson, William S Burroughs, etc. Delhi's newest books... Read More
India, March 15 -- As part of our 'Walled City dictionary' series, that is chronicling every Old Delhi street. The name promises a grave. And there is indeed a grave. Somebody's mazar flanks the entr... Read More
India, March 15 -- The Hauz Khas pave is coated with leaves. The culprit is standing innocently by the roadside - the tree is partly leafless. Such is the case these days with many Delhi peepals. In ... Read More