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'Summer burns, but petals stay'

India, April 29 -- No doubt, the street lamp's glow is brighter. But these tiny lamps emit a more soothing light, casting a cool, calming glow over the faintly smoky midnight air of this central Delhi... Read More


Delhiwale: Where the stones give no sound of water

India, April 28 -- Untamed, elemental. No tint of tenderness redeems the bleakness of this baoli. The stone step-well inside Tughlaqabad Fort is radically different from the aesthetically perfect ston... Read More


Where the stones give no sound of water

India, April 28 -- Untamed, elemental. No tint of tenderness redeems the bleakness of this baoli. The stone step-well inside Tughlaqabad Fort is radically different from the aesthetically perfect ston... Read More


Delhiwale:This way to Mohalla Niyaryan, part 1

India, April 26 -- Tucked behind GB Road's red light district, this street is privileged with a parallel existence. Mohalla Niyaryan is in Old Delhi, but it also lives outside time and space, inside a... Read More


Delhiwale: Painting a painter's Dilli

India, April 25 -- Painter Maqbool Fida Husain was briefly a Delhiwala. He lived in a barsati, and cruised around town in his self-painted Fiat car. Today, his works grace the venerable National Galle... Read More


Painting a painter's Dilli

India, April 25 -- Painter Maqbool Fida Husain was briefly a Delhiwala. He lived in a barsati, and cruised around town in his self-painted Fiat car. Today, his works grace the venerable National Galle... Read More


Delhiwale: Dante's CP, third circle

India, April 24 -- Per Dante's Inferno, each of the Hell's nine concentric circles in the epic poem denotes a distinct tier of sin and damnation. Similarly, in Delhi's Connaught Place (CP), each of th... Read More


Dante's CP, third circle

India, April 24 -- Per Dante's Inferno, each of the Hell's nine concentric circles in the epic poem denotes a distinct tier of sin and damnation. Similarly, in Delhi's Connaught Place (CP), each of th... Read More


Delhiwale: Flames of the season

India, April 23 -- With utmost regards to the great poet of Waste Land, April is not the cruellest month. Certainly not in Delhi. Look around-gulmohar trees are starting to shoot out their bloom in pa... Read More


Flames of the season

India, April 23 -- With utmost regards to the great poet of Waste Land, April is not the cruellest month. Certainly not in Delhi. Look around-gulmohar trees are starting to shoot out their bloom in pa... Read More