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On 31st December, 2025

India, Dec. 31 -- The world is, according to a saying, only the size of each man's head. Delhi has millions of people, and today in the final day of 2025, each of us millions of citizens must be makin... Read More


Delhiwale: On 31st December, 2025

India, Dec. 31 -- The world is, according to a saying, only the size of each man's head. Delhi has millions of people, and today in the final day of 2025, each of us millions of citizens must be makin... Read More


Birthday poet by numbers

India, Dec. 27 -- Today is actor Salman Khan's birthday. It is also actor Timothee Chalamet's birthday. It is also the birth anniversary of Delhi's greatest poet. We exploit this day to celebrate our ... Read More


Delhiwale: Birthday poet by numbers

India, Dec. 27 -- On Mirza Ghalib's anniversary Today is actor Salman Khan's birthday. It is also actor Timothee Chalamet's birthday. It is also the birth anniversary of Delhi's greatest poet. We exp... Read More


Delhiwale: Shuklji's reader

India, Dec. 26 -- The year is ending with a profound loss. Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla died on Tuesday at a hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, aged 88. Among many readers who felt a personal sense of los... Read More


Delhiwale: The 'wale' census

India, Dec. 25 -- We are the Delhiwale. The "wale" in Delhiwale loosely means "belonging to." Indeed, very many place-names in the city end with "wale". So do the names of citizens; their name mostly ... Read More


Portrait of a book hoarder

India, Dec. 23 -- Ali Asghar Shah has a problem. He loves to read, and he loves to buy books. But these days, he doesn't get enough time to read. Not only because he has a busy day-job as a senior mar... Read More


Delhiwale: Portrait of a book hoarder

India, Dec. 23 -- Ali Asghar Shah has a problem. He loves to buy books, and he loves to read. But these days, he doesn't get enough time to read. Not only because he has a busy day-job as a senior mar... Read More


Portrait of a book hoarder

India, Dec. 23 -- Ali Asghar Shah has a problem. He loves to buy books, and he loves to read. But these days, he doesn't get enough time to read. Not only because he has a busy day-job as a senior mar... Read More


This way to Meena Bazar

India, Dec. 20 -- It translates to fish in Sanskrit, love in Pashto, and glaze in Persian. Meena, the word. Meena Bazar in Old Delhi overkills the senses with its stupendously immoderate range of stuf... Read More