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Like a midsummer night's dream

India, Sept. 11 -- Let's start with the setting. This is the night following the night of Monday's lunar eclipse. A white moon is peering out from the starless sky, shining upon a pond. The water in t... Read More


Delhiwale: Like a midsummer night's dream

India, Sept. 11 -- Let's start with the setting. This is the night following the night of Monday's lunar eclipse. A white moon is peering out from the starless sky, shining upon a pond. The water in t... Read More


This September, his last drinks

India, Sept. 10 -- Abruptly, without any prior notice, he vanished. He wasn't seen for a whole month. This afternoon, he is again sighted. Vendor Mahinder Singh is sitting at his usual spot on the pav... Read More


Delhiwale: This September, his last drinks

India, Sept. 10 -- Abruptly, without any prior notice, he vanished. He wasn't seen for a whole month. This afternoon, he is again sighted. Vendor Mahinder Singh is sitting at his usual spot on the pav... Read More


Dilli Gate outside Dilli

India, Sept. 9 -- The pink gateway is flanked on each side by a small shop-Vikrant Generators and Sai Book Depot. This is Dilli Gate. The world's no. 1 Dilli Gate, of course, is one of the four surviv... Read More


Delhiwale: Dilli Gate outside Dilli

India, Sept. 9 -- The pink gateway is flanked on each side by a small shop-Vikrant Generators and Sai Book Depot. This is Dilli Gate. The world's no. 1 Dilli Gate, of course, is one of the four surv... Read More


Delhiwale: Dome forever

India, Sept. 8 -- "Dome of Delhi's Humayun's tomb in Nizamuddin area collapses; many feared trapped." "Dome in Delhi's Humayun Tomb collapses, 10 feared trapped." Such were the breaking news headline... Read More


This way to Poet Wali Pahari

India, Sept. 6 -- What to do when a street has not one but two names? Naturally, it ought to be profiled twice, to present it in two different perspectives. For the last four years, this page has been... Read More


Delhiwale: A different Yamuna

India, Sept. 5 -- The galloping muddy water is flowing with the pace of a furious mountain stream. Trees are lying marooned in the water. White birds with long yellow beaks are perched atop the leafy ... Read More


In a fakeer's mind

India, Sept. 3 -- Wearing a green topi, he describes himself as a darvesh, a fakeer. Seated one night in a remote corner of the Sufi shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in central Delhi, Javed Ali agre... Read More