Our Self-Written Obituaries – Nivriti Butalia, Dubai
The fourth death. [Text by Nivriti Butalia; photo by Dhruv Narain] Nivriti Butalia burnt her tongue on a milkless cup of tea sourced from the pantry of the newspaper office in the Middle East, where she had been a stooge…
City Faith – 711th Urs, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Dargah
The annual celebrations. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The four-day Urs ceremony, or the death anniversary, of Delhi’s 14th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, starts on February 6. Urs means ‘wedding’ in Arabic and it symbolizes the…
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