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India, April 23 -- The moon feels older than time. Yet once, there was no moon-only the collision that made it. Lodhi Garden might not appear as timeless as its crescent moon (see the park's night pho... Read More


Delhiwale: This place a poem

India, April 23 -- The moon feels older than time. Yet once, there was no moon-only the collision that made it. Lodhi Garden might not appear as timeless as its crescent moon (see the park's night pho... Read More


The hawker of eyeglasses

India, April 22 -- Eyeglasses cover a good part of his shirt. He is also holding very many of them in his right hand. Citizen Shaan is a street hawker of eyeglasses. This afternoon, while on the job, ... Read More


Delhiwale: The hawker of eyeglasses

India, April 22 -- Eyeglasses cover a good part of his shirt. He is also holding very many of them in his right hand. Citizen Shaan is a street hawker of eyeglasses. This afternoon, while on the job, ... Read More


A monument against temperature extremes

India, April 21 -- Sometimes the accompaniment outshines the main course. Such is the case with the tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. The emperor's tomb is interesting, but the secondary structure appended... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Gali Nal Wali

India, April 18 -- There must be a tap somewhere. The cramped lane is, after all, called Gali Nal Wali. Yet no nal, or tap, shows up in this dark street in Old Delhi. At the entrance, two guesthouses... Read More


This way to Gali Nal Wali

India, April 18 -- There must be a tap somewhere. The cramped lane is, after all, called Gali Nal Wali. Yet no nal, or tap, shows up in this dark street in Old Delhi. At the entrance, two guesthouses ... Read More


For the fan of fen

India, April 17 -- Flaky, light, and crisp, fen is a kind of-shall we say-biskut? In truth, it is closer to a puff pastry, made up of many fragile layers, each ready to collapse under even the slighte... Read More


The coffee house elder

India, April 16 -- Perched atop the second floor of Mohan Singh Place in Central Delhi, the Indian Coffee House is a soft ode to an earlier time. It belongs to an era of affordable snacking out that e... Read More


Delhiwale: The gram before the Insta

India, April 15 -- Scroll through Instagram and the Millennium City appears in pieces: malls, cafes, sunsets stuck between high-rises (and flooded roads during the monsoons!). All of these sights tagg... Read More