The small wonder. The most beautiful thing in Connaught Place, Delhi’s Colonial-era shopping district, cannot be purchased. It’s a tree in E-block: semal, or bombax ceiba. The towering deciduous tree clashes with the harmonic series of white columns that line the Inner Circle corridor. This is nature’s...
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The nature’s gift. One evening The Delhi Walla saw a small pomegranate tree in the courtyard of the sufi retreat of Nizamuddin Chilla, behind Humayun’s Tomb in central Delhi. The tree’s thin branches were bending down under the weight of fruit. The leaves were green, but yellowed...
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South of the city. No soul in sight, the wall crisscrosses through what seems like a jungle. The Delhi Walla is standing at the edge of a cliff, looking down at what used to be a stone mine. The wall is...
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The gift of summer. The beginning of Delhi’s harsh summer has its comforts. In March and April as the temperature rises, the city’s green cover is taken over by bougainvillea flowers. The red buds and their brown thorny vines creep up the trees and bend across the...
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The wonders of the Delhi sky.
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The natural colors. In the monsoon, the most beautiful thing to look for are not the rains but the sky. After a heavy shower, the clouds scatter but the wetness lingers in the air. Not sure of itself, the sky doesn’t know if it needs to be...
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Delhi’s holy maa. Every morning, after milking his buffalo, Pandit Sunil Kumar takes a ritual dip in the sacred Yamuna, also called Jamuna. Originating in the Himalayas, the river enters Delhi from the northeast of the city, near Palla village, and after 40 kms, it leaves the...
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