India, May 13 -- The gate is locked. The tree-speckled compound is strewn with dry crackling leaves. The lone man in the stately porch, a guard maybe, makes no answer. Peering over the rusted spokes o... Read More
India, May 13 -- It stretches from Dilli Gate gateway to Lothian Road. Netaji Subhas Marg is named after freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. During the angrezo ke time, it was Elgin Road, after a Bri... Read More
India, May 13 -- Sun sets every evening in Connaught Place (CP). But the sun refuses to set in CP's Sunny Guest House. More than fifty years old, the upper-floor lodge is a lesser-known but lasting CP... Read More
India, May 11 -- As part of our 'Walled City dictionary' series, chronicling every Old Delhi street. It stretches from Dilli Gate to Lothian Road. Netaji Subhas Marg is named after freedom fighter Su... Read More
India, May 9 -- Something serving as a relief from what is usual-this is a more evocative dictionary meaning of 'oasis'. Technically, the word refers to "a green area in desert". Zila Ghaziabad is no... Read More
India, May 8 -- Something serving as a relief from what is usual-this is a more evocative dictionary meaning of 'oasis'. Technically, the word refers to "a green area in desert". Zila Ghaziabad is no... Read More
India, May 7 -- He doesn't have a mobile phone, he doesn't have a bank account, he doesn't have an ID card, he doesn't have much cash either, he says. Even so, he is materialistic in his own worldly f... Read More
India, May 7 -- The lush banyan tree stands by the old marble grave. High up in the smoggy air, the leafy branches bend over the chaotic street, keeping it marooned in perpetual shade, here in the cro... Read More
India, May 7 -- In his 70s, he is frail, he walks with caution, and his advanced years has taken a toll on his hearing. And he flits around the capital in public buses. This elderly man single-handedl... Read More
India, May 7 -- The pink building bears the shade of twilight. The purpose for which it was built is long gone, but the structure continues to exist, here in Paharganj, the backpackers' district reeli... Read More