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A tale of two colours

India, Sept. 2 -- It is changing again. The Sufi shrine of Hazrat Sarmad Shahid and Hazrat Hare Bhare Shah lies in a small chamber at the foot of Old Delhi's Jama Masjid. This time, look up. The ceili... Read More


Delhiwale: The Nepal amidst us

India, Sept. 1 -- In the relatively inexpensive rooms of South Delhi's Chirag Delhi village, young working people from Nepal live alongside residents from other parts of the country. Nepali is heard i... Read More


The Nepal amidst us

India, Sept. 1 -- In the relatively inexpensive rooms of South Delhi's Chirag Delhi village, young working people from Nepal live alongside residents from other parts of the country. Nepali is heard i... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Gali Qasim Jan

India, Aug. 29 -- Poetry in some form is everywhere in Gali Qasim Jan. Not the poetry of Mirza Ghalib, who spent his last years on this Old Delhi street, but the poetry of shop names. De Cut Salon. Ti... Read More


This way to Gali Qasim Jan

India, Aug. 29 -- Poetry in some form is everywhere in Gali Qasim Jan. Not the poetry of Mirza Ghalib, who spent his last years on this Old Delhi street, but the poetry of shop names. De Cut Salon. Ti... Read More


Death by Khan Market

India, Aug. 28 -- Delhi's notorious place for spending obscene amounts of money has, for its next-door neighbour, an enormous population of folks who are done with money. The dead. Khan Market is 75 t... Read More


Delhiwale: Light in August

India, Aug. 27 -- "There's a lambence, a soft, luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods ... Read More


Room of the rain

India, Aug. 26 -- This Tuesday morning, rain is lashing a Delhi terrace. Seen through a room's raindrop-speckled window, the terrace is drenched and deserted (see photo). This was what the room was me... Read More


Millennium City's other towers

India, Aug. 25 -- Office towers cram its sprawling sectors, malls serve as shrines to shopping. Materialism maketh Gurugram. But this is a tired cliche about the Millennium City. Gurugram has another ... Read More


Millennium City's other towers

India, Aug. 25 -- Office towers cram its sprawling sectors, malls serve as shrines to shopping. Materialism maketh Gurugram. But this is a tired cliche about the Millennium City. Gurugram has another ... Read More