India, May 16 -- Sunday tends to be most special for Delhi's booklovers. They head to the Sunday Book Bazar, which every week gets crammed with thousands of random books. The booklovers fish out their... Read More
India, May 16 -- Sitting with legs crossed, head tilted, moustache neatly trimmed and twirled, smiling beatifically, he is playing his accordion, the bellows of the instrument fanned out to their utmo... Read More
India, May 15 -- Sitting with legs crossed, head tilted, moustache neatly trimmed and twirled, smiling beatifically, he is playing his accordion, the bellows of the instrument fanned out to their utmo... Read More
India, May 14 -- The bazar is cinematic in a flamboyant, Old Delhi way. A jumble of bakeries and bone-setting clinics, groceries and pharmacies, meat shops and chai shops, appended with residential si... Read More
India, May 13 -- While wading through a dense jungle, a slight opening of tree leaves abruptly reveals a tantalising glimpse of another world-a tower in progress, 22 floors! The tower is actually an ... Read More
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