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A woman in hat is reading a Mahasweta Devi paperback, with the centuries-old Bada Gumbad monument as her…

This moment, the young man in white kurta-pajama is poring over a book. This moment, he is scrawling on a pad.…

White hot noon. The road is deserted, here in this summertime spot of the megapolis. A group of men is huddled…

As part of our ‘Walled City dictionary’ series that is chronicling every Old Delhi locality. Delhiwale…

Sailboats in the harbour. Their white sails arrayed beside each other — see photo. But there’s no hull, no deck,…

Nizamuddin East is too posh. The dwellers include a nawab’s daughter, a former chief minister, a former chief…

He is from Bhagwan Ram’s birthplace, but is named after Bhagwan Krishna.Kanhaiya shrugs. “My name was given to me…

The white hoarding, the blue and red letters painted on this hoarding, the yellowing shutters. All these adds to…

Saaye saaye, so whistles the forceful afternoon breeze. But the peepal is staying unmoved. No leaf stirs. Its…

Standing alone against a golden sky, he is smiling beatifically, God-like. Next, he is visiting a textile mill,…