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Delhiwale: This way to David Street

India, Feb. 21 -- In the olden times, when the Sunday Book Bazar of Mahila Haat unfolded every week along the long Daryaganj pave, it was the 'Lohe Wala Pul' - the iron bridge - that marked the market... Read More


Delhiwale: Pink Lodhi

India, Feb. 20 -- Attached to the tips of stiff stalks, the pink flowers defy gravity, rising upwards into the pitch blue sky. Dear reader, postpone all your plans, and head to Lodhi Garden. There, f... Read More


Delhiwale: Neeli's blues

India, Feb. 19 -- It is a different kind of pleasure that one derives from gazing upon a Delhi monument by the smoggy light of the day, than from what one experiences by gazing at it amid the smoggy b... Read More


Delhiwale: An enigmatic bookman

India, Feb. 18 -- He is one of Delhi's most enigmatic booksellers, dealing online in precious editions of classic novels. He tends to abruptly disappear from society causing a puzzled distress to his ... Read More


Delhiwale: Citizen Jaisul

India, Feb. 17 -- This time, the Delhi winter passed in a jiffy - and Jaisul is quite relieved. He's a rickshaw puller, he explains, and his business always plummets during the winter. Even so, he ma... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Kucha Dakhni Rai

India, Feb. 15 -- Green turban, black apron and saffron beard. Such a stately man-he must be Dakhni Rai himself. He is actually Zakib. He has been administering his corner chai stall for 30 years in ... Read More


Delhiwale: Valentine's Day mubarak

India, Feb. 13 -- Wild nights - Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! This love verse was penned by America's Emily Dickinson. The poet of Amherst was writing her passion... Read More


Delhiwale: A city that is a gram

India, Feb. 11 -- Reserve your thrills for 2026. Next year marks a special anniversary: Gurugram will turn 10. It was back in 2016 when Gurgaon was renamed Gurugram, and with that, an official recogni... Read More


A city that is a gram

India, Feb. 11 -- Reserve your thrills for 2026. Next year marks a special anniversary: Gurugram will turn 10. It was back in 2016 when Gurgaon was renamed Gurugram, and with that, an official recogni... Read More


Delhiwale: The year was 1983

India, Feb. 10 -- A blue book is lying forlorn on the dusty floor. Here in a Delhi shop for used books. Turns out the book is not really a book. It is somebody's private diary, belonging to the year ... Read More