India, Oct. 26 -- In the older colonies of the city there are still lanes where the verandah is in daily use. It is found at first light, when the elder of the house brings a chair out through a gate ... Read More
India, Oct. 18 -- A city perfumed - that is what two weeks of October smell like now. Delhi has many smells: food, spices, streets, sewers. But in October all smells bow down to the olfactory invasion... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- On the eve of Mahalaya, Method, a contemporary art gallery in Defence Colony, opened its show with a listening of the one-and-a-half-hour audio montage of Chandipath, the recitation ... Read More
India, Oct. 5 -- An anecdote that stayed with me about Delhi was from my father-in-law, who briefly served in R&AW. It was one of those stories common across Delhi in the late 1940s and 1950s, when th... Read More
India, Oct. 5 -- An anecdote that stayed with me about Delhi was from my father-in-law, who briefly served in R&AW. It was one of those stories common across Delhi in the late 1940s and 1950s, when th... Read More
India, Sept. 21 -- The best time to see Kamla Nagar is when the market is shut, an early morning walk in September, reveals the architecture behind the flex and signage of a crowded commercial area. A... Read More
India, Sept. 13 -- The visibility of a city's unevenness after Satya Niketan is a pattern we have all seen before. A tragedy, photo ops for ministers and officials, a reel of someone being scolded, an... Read More
India, Aug. 31 -- S ome personalities are autochthonous to Delhi. Politicians and lawyers claim the first rank, but academics are not far behind. Academia is an old habit here, a stereotype most unive... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- Some personalities are autochthonous to Delhi. Politicians and lawyers claim the first rank, but academics are not far behind. Academia is an old habit here, a stereotype most univer... Read More
India, Aug. 17 -- Delhi's settlement history has followed a discernible logic in which particular communities converge around shared origin, profession, or exile -- a pattern legible across the city's... Read More