Conversations with a Delhi writer on her first personal blog. Ms. Dhama, what prompted you to start your new blogsite? I had been musing about it for a while. Sometimes I pen...
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Business propositions made in a unique shrine dedicated to a woman. The sarcophagus chamber of many sufi shrines in this city is barred to women. So it is pleasantly surprising to discover a dargah dedicated to a woman. But Fatima Mai’s shrine, nestled amidst the Soviet-style residential...
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Musings of a woman born and brought up in Delhi’s most elegant address. Almost everyone I know has lived in different houses but I had only one home since the day I was born…Sujan Singh Park. Ever since the Delhi Walla Mayank Austen Soofi asked me...
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City bands go global with foreign tours and firangi fans. After 16 years in the spotlight, the Parikrama band is to shove rock ‘n’ roll back to where it came from: England. It will perform this month at the prestigious Download Festival in Donington Park. Both hope...
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The Japanese art of conversation reaches the capital. On a rainy Thursday night last May, a panel of designers, writers, photographers, urban thinkers, and a solitary antique collector, set about ‘Mapping the City’ in the British Council. It was the third Pecha Kucha Night in Delhi. The...
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A German woman experiences Delhi through chapattis etc. Every morning I open the door to my balcony to check the nature of the surprise my friendly neighbours deliver daily. Sometimes it’s a...
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An Indian living in NYC, anxious about returning back to his first home – Delhi. After spending almost 8 years of my adult life in the New York City area, I am returning back to my hometown New Delhi....
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India’s best classical artists run dance schools in Delhi but is anyone interested? When they talk, fingers flutter, eye-brows quiver, heads sway, and feet shift restlessly. Recipients of prestigious awards, they are generous in sharing the secrets of...
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Delhi Chief Minister laments the influx of poor Bihari migrants. In May, 2007, while laying the foundation stone for three more flyovers in the city, Mrs. Sheila Dikshit, Delhi’s Chief Minister, said, “Delhi is seen as a prosperous city. People from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP) and...
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A Canadian woman, with son in tow, takes the capital to heart. As I sipped my Masala Chai by the early light of a Canadian morning, my eyes caught the twinkling mirror work of the wall-hanging and my...
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