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The Zaildars of Madanpur Khadar

India, May 19 -- Not far from Sarita Vihar in southeast Delhi, the road takes you in the direction of the Yamuna. Most of it feels like New Delhi, till the road gets narrower and crowded: a clear sign... Read More


The Zaildars of Madanpur Khadar in Delhi

India, May 17 -- Not far from Sarita Vihar in southeast Delhi, the road takes you in the direction of the Yamuna. Most of it feels like New Delhi, till the road gets narrower and crowded: a clear sign... Read More


The house with a crest Karl von Heinz built in Maharani Bagh

India, May 11 -- B ack when Karl Malte von Heinz arrived in India, sometime between 1930-32, after escaping Nazi Austria, he made quite the impression as an architect in Hyderabad and Delhi. Today, th... Read More


The story of Delhi's DDA vision

India, May 4 -- In the late 90s every other weekend I would go to meet my grandmother in Vasant Kunj, the weekend was fueled with cable television and Cartoon Network, the biggest gift of liberalisati... Read More


Rain garden to rooftop farm: Inside the Delhi house of man who built AIIMS

India, April 27 -- What happens when an architect marries a landscape architect? They get an urban jungle on their rooftop and a rain garden with a water harvesting recharge pit in the front yard abso... Read More


The house of the man who built AIIMS

India, April 27 -- What happens when an architect marries a landscape architect? They get an urban jungle on their rooftop and a rain garden with a water harvesting recharge pit in the front yard abso... Read More


Chandigarh-inspired Delhi modernism, 'Garden City' concepts in Hauz Khas's single-storey Casa Pia bungalow

India, April 20 -- The rarest site in a city of over 22 million people is a single-storey, two-bedroom bungalow. Casa Pia is tucked away in south Delhi's Hauz Khas area, sitting amidst prime real esta... Read More


The house Sir Sobha Singh built after Rashtrapati Bhavan

India, April 13 -- Few figures are as deeply imprinted into the built fabric of Delhi as Sir Sobha Singh, fondly remembered as "aadhi Dilli ka maalik". His rise from a sub-contractor to one of the pri... Read More


Inside a professor's 1970s house in north Delhi's university precinct

India, April 6 -- In 1911, with the transfer of the imperial capital from Calcutta to Delhi, the northern Ridge near Civil Lines was drawn into the military geography of the new administration. Rural ... Read More


The Delhi house extinction archive: A record of all that we surrendered

India, March 23 -- An art project made me think about the extinction of modernism in the Delhi house. That is the thing with art - it returns you to your present and makes you wonder how you got here.... Read More