India, June 24 -- The skeletal tree used to stand here, in the middle of the grassy expanse, facing the centuries-old stone monument. Now the spot is a muddy brown patch. Delhi's Lodhi Garden is full ... Read More
India, June 23 -- Bahrisons, Good Earth, K.K. Lee, Fab Foto, Khan Chacha, Faqir Chand. these long-time icons of Delhi's legendary Khan Market have evolved into necessary pilgrimage points for Khan Mar... Read More
India, June 21 -- All the sincere conjectures about the street's name reverently points to the same divinity. Every passer-by accosted in Gali Shankar Wali assumes that the Old Delhi lane must have ob... Read More
India, June 20 -- Plop! That's the sound these berries make after they fall from the tree, their purple juice sometimes squirting out in all directions on hitting the hard earth. The stains explain ... Read More
India, June 19 -- The silent, secretive tunnel-like corridor crawls through facing rows of darkened cells. The underground place is truly a revelation. This is one of the most puzzling segments of Tu... Read More
India, June 17 -- This is the story of two Dubliners. One is a professor, the other is an engineer. One is a former New Yorker, the other is an Irish native. Both share a passion for the same novel. ... Read More
India, June 14 -- Years after poet Ghalib's passing, the beautiful doorway of his last haveli in the Walled City was carefully dismantled from its surrounding wall of old-fashioned lakhori bricks, and... Read More
India, June 13 -- After flying 5,000 miles from Delhi, this reporter landed two days ago in Dublin. The Ireland capital is the legendary setting of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, the great modernist nov... Read More
India, June 12 -- Mirza Ghalib, Khushwant Singh, Maheshwar Dayal, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Ahmad Ali, H.C. Fanshawe , Quli Khan, H.K. Kaul, Percival Spear, RV Smith, Madhur Jaffrey, William Dalrymple, Sad... Read More
India, June 10 -- While the sun beats, the dead tree gives no shelter, and the cricket no relief. The world is a heap of broken images. This evocation from poet TS Eliot's Waste Land can get uncomfor... Read More