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
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
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
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
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
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
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
India, Aug. 22 -- People would slip walking here. The Old Delhi road was notorious for its slippery surface, with fish scales littering the ground. Even scooters would skid. This was Machhiwalon ka Ba... Read More
India, Aug. 22 -- People would slip walking here. The Old Delhi road was notorious for its slippery surface, with fish scales littering the ground. Even scooters would skid. This was Machhiwalon ka Ba... Read More
India, Aug. 21 -- Minars rise above the walls. Domes rise above the roof. Arches frame the prayer hall. Moti Masjid, the pearl mosque. Built entirely of white marble. Art historian John Ruskin wrote ... Read More