A Journey Through Delhi's Timeless Graveyard of Mehrauli

2 months ago

A Journey Through Delhi's Timeless Graveyard of Mehrauli

Hindustan Times

Mehrauli is a graveyard of various epochs of Delhi's overlong history, containing material fragments from the Tomars to the Lodhis to the British. It is also a land of very many graves, with various monuments and shrines dedicated to different religious and historical figures. The most historic grave is that of Emperor Iltutmish, who fathered Razia Sultan, the one who went on to become Delhi's first female ruler.

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Delhiwale: Hero’s grave

3 years, 10 months ago

Delhiwale: Hero’s grave

Hindustan Times

Among those who care for graves of historical people, it is common knowledge that the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Sarmad Shahid lies between the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort in Old Delhi. The marble grave lies within a small garden, its boundary wall circled by unwieldy trees. Some might even know that the grave of freedom fighter Maulana …

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How legends, art and history converge in Gwalior

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How legends, art and history converge in Gwalior

Firstpost

The Gwalior region is replete with stories of the past and volumes would be needed to do full justice. The Tansen Samaroh is a great starting point to come up close to a living aspect of Gwalior’s heritage, the music of its gharana In mid-December, the historic city of Gwalior comes alive to the sound of classical Indian music. An …

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Delhiwale: This way to Dilli Gate Qabristan

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Delhiwale: This way to Dilli Gate Qabristan

Hindustan Times

One morning, a funeral procession in Old Delhi halts the rush-hour flow of autos in front of Delite Cinema. Located slightly outside the Walled City’s vanished walls, the qabristan contains some of contemporary Old Delhi’s most distinguished gentry. The inscription on the gravestone of Haji Mian Fayyazuddin, an esteemed Old Delhi shakhsiyat who died in the second wave of the …

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Delhiwale: Delhi’s weirdest dome

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhiwale: Delhi’s weirdest dome

Hindustan Times

It looks like icing on the cake. “It was a complex conservation project and we could take it only because of our experience with Humayun’s tomb where we had completed the conservation a year before starting with Rahim’s mausoleum. “Rahim’s monument was in a ruinous condition, with walls having cracks right under the dome; cracks so wide and deep that …

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Mass graves, cremations as Wayanad landslides death toll crosses 300

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mass graves, cremations as Wayanad landslides death toll crosses 300

Hindustan Times

Wayanad: It is a little after 11am and there is a slight drizzle. It snakes past coffee plantations on either side, a small temple, and finally leads to the graveyard, where around 100 men are toiling strenuously to dig 20 graves on one end, one after the other. Over 300 have been killed in landslides in Wayanad since Tuesday Officials …

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Sunken museum at Humayun's Tomb site in Delhi to be inaugurated on July 29

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Sunken museum at Humayun's Tomb site in Delhi to be inaugurated on July 29

The Hindu

The country's first sunken museum at the Humayun Tomb complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Delhi is all set to be inaugurated on Monday. Work began on the construction of the country's first sunken museum at the iconic 16th-century tomb here in April 2015. Using cutting-edge technology, the iconic museum in south Delhi also meticulously recreates the timeline of …

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The landscape of Delhi is richly textured because of its gardens and their stories

6 months ago

The landscape of Delhi is richly textured because of its gardens and their stories

The Hindu

Each of the Mughals, from Babur to Aurangzeb, had a quality uniquely his own. He is credited with having introduced in Hindustan the Timurid form of ‘char bagh’, the first such garden having come up in Agra, though the masses remember the city for the Taj Mahal with its manicured gardens and a majestic tomb. Humayun’s last resting place was …

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Delhiwale: ‘I loved you more than everyone’

6 months, 1 week ago

Delhiwale: ‘I loved you more than everyone’

Hindustan Times

The gravestones are burning hot, this June afternoon. Here is a sample of the very many engraved sentiments commemorating the Delhiwale who have become one with the earth at the Christian Cemetery on Prithviraj Road. —Aman Anthony Choudhary Dearest “Shona”, who left us suddenly under tragic circumstances on 30th April 1999 to give happiness and laughter in heaven as she …

Lucknow’s Residency gets major facelift after year-long drive

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lucknow’s Residency gets major facelift after year-long drive

Hindustan Times

Over 200 graves in Lucknow’s iconic Residency, also touted as British Residency or Residency Complex, have undergone a massive restoration, undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India’s Lucknow circle. The cemetery in the Residency, where remains of British soldiers rest, after conservation The long-ignored graves of British officials killed during the 1857 siege, were falling apart, but a year after …

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Delhiwale: This way to Gali Mazar Wali

9 months, 1 week ago

Delhiwale: This way to Gali Mazar Wali

Hindustan Times

As part of our ‘Walled City dictionary’ series, that is chronicling every Old Delhi street. A grave with a chessboard pattern of green and white tiles flanks the entrance of Gali Mazar Wali. Somebody’s mazar flanks the entrance of Gali Mazar Wali, here in Kalan Mahal locality. The narrow Gali Mazar Wali is stamped on both sides of its short …

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Taj Mahal was not built by Shah Jahan but…, PIL filed at Delhi HC

1 year, 1 month ago

Taj Mahal was not built by Shah Jahan but…, PIL filed at Delhi HC

Live Mint

In a bizarre claim, a petition was filed at the Delhi High Court citing Taj Mahal was not built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and accordingly, sought direction for the Centre to publish the correct history of the iconic monument. Surjit Singh Yadav, Hindu Sena President, who filed the petition, noted Taj Mahal was originally the palace of Raja Man …

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Revamped Mehrauli monuments now open in Delhi

1 year, 2 months ago

Revamped Mehrauli monuments now open in Delhi

Hindustan Times

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Friday inaugurated at least six renovated monuments nestled in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in south Delhi, where work was undertaken since March this year, and threw open to the public a revived water body with fountains, a restaurant, and a pathway, along with the illuminated historical structures. The restored monuments include Quli Khan’s tomb and …

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Frescos of 17th century Delhi monument revamped

1 year, 4 months ago

Frescos of 17th century Delhi monument revamped

Hindustan Times

Nestled within the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in south Delhi, nearly 100 metres from the south entrance of Qutub Minar, is the tomb of Muhammad Quli Khan from the early 17th century — a site which has been brimming with activity over the past month. Specialised fresco artists are working on the tomb to preserve the original ornamentation,” said Sanjay Garg, …

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A Hindu Cremation at Paris’s Christian Cemetery - News18

1 year, 5 months ago

A Hindu Cremation at Paris’s Christian Cemetery - News18

News 18

On June 6, 1925, a motor hearse followed by 25 motorcars veered through a series of tombs of all shapes, sizes and designs resting alongside tree-lined cobbled pathways to enter the Pere Lachaise cemetery. Ashes from Pere Lachaise to Prayag Subsequently, the urn containing the ashes “was transported in a private train to Marseilles, where it was ensconced in a …

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Tiruvarur village gets a ‘Taj Mahal’ tomb as tribute to a beloved mother

1 year, 6 months ago

Tiruvarur village gets a ‘Taj Mahal’ tomb as tribute to a beloved mother

The Hindu

A near-replica of Agra’s Taj Mahal has been making news this week, as reports about the marble mausoleum built in Ammaiyappan village, Tiruvarur, by a son for his mother who passed away in 2020, have been going viral online. Mr. Dawood, who is a rice merchant based out of Chennai, said that the resemblance to Taj Mahal was almost incidental. …

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Delhiwale: Way to churchyard matriarch

1 year, 10 months ago

Delhiwale: Way to churchyard matriarch

Hindustan Times

As part of our ‘Walled City dictionary’ series that is chronicling every significant Old Delhi element. In blue sari and white hair, she at 90 is like a lesser-known but still a notable Walled City monument. “Since then, my life is revolving around two churches.” The first is the “Fatehpuri church” of her youthful days, and “after my marriage in …

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After DDA’s eviction notice, Mehrauli JJ dwellers in the line of fire

1 year, 11 months ago

After DDA’s eviction notice, Mehrauli JJ dwellers in the line of fire

The Hindu

In the jam-packed neighbourhood of south Delhi, the jhuggi jhopri, or slum, dwellers of Mehrauli Archaeological Park stare at an uncertain future after hundreds of them were served eviction notices by the Delhi Development Authority on December 12, 2022. Not new to litigations Mehrauli Archaeological Park is one of the largest archaeological parks in the country, and comprises over 100 …

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Tirupati’s megalithic burial sites in a state of neglect

2 years, 1 month ago

Tirupati’s megalithic burial sites in a state of neglect

The Hindu

Tirupati district is dotted with anthropomorphic burial sites, said to be the largest as a collection in Andhra Pradesh. The most prominent one is the ‘pillared dolmen’ of the megalithic era, found at Mallayyagaripalle, nestling on a hillock between Chandragiri and Dornakambala, 20 km from Tirupati. Yet another type of a megalithic burial site is the ‘stone circle’, where the …

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Maha: Security Tightened Around Afzal Khan's Grave Amid Row Over Gyanvapi Mosque & Aurangzeb's Tomb

2 years, 6 months ago

Maha: Security Tightened Around Afzal Khan's Grave Amid Row Over Gyanvapi Mosque & Aurangzeb's Tomb

News 18

Security has been tightened around the grave of Afzal Khan in Maharashtra’s Satara district amid the ongoing political row over the tomb of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Aurangabad and the hearing of the Gyanvapi mosque case in the Varanasi court in Uttar Pradesh. Speaking to news agency ANI, Satara superintendent of police Ajay Kumar Bansal said Khan’s tomb has been …

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Delhiwale: A grave secret

2 years, 10 months ago

Delhiwale: A grave secret

Hindustan Times

We will never know what distresses were raging through Rani Tara Devi’s heart when she boarded a taxi at north Delhi’s Maidens Hotel, drove all the way to the Qutub Minar in the south of the city, walked up the stairs to the top, and jumped. Rani Tara Devi, wife of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, was buried soon afterwards, …

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Delhiwale: The many shapes of daylight

2 years, 10 months ago

Delhiwale: The many shapes of daylight

Hindustan Times

The wall and the floor are covered with bright constellations — little stars and comets. It is an ideal moment for a visitor to sit on the shrine’s floor and admire the daylight from a new perspective. One of the places where you can engage with this daylight in its most playful and artistic avatar is in Old Delhi - …

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Delhi: SDMC, ITO graveyard admin at odds over space crunch

2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi: SDMC, ITO graveyard admin at odds over space crunch

Hindustan Times

The space earmarked for burying Covid victims at the ITO graveyard, one of the Delhi’s biggest cemeteries for Muslims, is full with the management saying that it had to turn away two bodies last week, and send them to the facility at north west Delhi’s Mangolpuri on the city’s outskirts. 1,350 bodies have been laid to rest in the Covid …

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This Sleepy Town in MP is Home to Black Taj Mahal and Mumtaz Mahal’s Original Grave

2 years, 11 months ago

This Sleepy Town in MP is Home to Black Taj Mahal and Mumtaz Mahal’s Original Grave

News 18

Having grown up in Uttar Pradesh and lived in Agra, the Taj Mahal was a familiar sight to me. The word burhan means demonstration or proof and true to its meaning, Burhanpur stands witness to the initial tears and sorrow of the grief-stricken husband and children of Mumtaz Mahal. Once a thriving Mughal city known as the ‘Gateway to the …

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Eye on UP polls! Delhi CM Kejriwal announces free Ayodhya Ram Mandir pilgrimage for elderly

3 years, 1 month ago

Eye on UP polls! Delhi CM Kejriwal announces free Ayodhya Ram Mandir pilgrimage for elderly

India TV News

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that the Cabinet has approved the addition of Ayodhya in its free pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens of the national capital. Addressing the media here, Kejriwal said that the Delhi government's 'Mukhya Mantri Teerth Yatra Yojana' will be free of cost for the aged people. Under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Tirth Yatra Yojana’, …

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The red Taj Mahal and other hidden treasures of Agra

3 years, 2 months ago

The red Taj Mahal and other hidden treasures of Agra

Live Mint

A Taj Mahal of red sandstone, with slender turrets and a dome, rises above the trees. The most magnificent structure here is “the Red Taj Mahal”, commissioned by Ann Hessing, in memory of her husband John Hessing, who was a Dutch soldier serving in the Maratha army in Agra. “When she died, her personal wealth was equal to almost $40 …

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Attempts to build a ‘shrine’ for don-turned-MP Shahabuddin at Delhi graveyard

3 years, 3 months ago

Attempts to build a ‘shrine’ for don-turned-MP Shahabuddin at Delhi graveyard

Hindustan Times

The management of the graveyard at ITO in central Delhi has a complicated problem -- one that involves religion, politics, Covid-19, and a dreaded former gangster. Attempts to build a ‘shrine’ for don-turned-MP Shahabuddin at Delhi graveyard For the past week, the guards at the Qabristan Ahle Islam, one of the biggest burial grounds for Muslims in the city, have …

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In Delhi, over 1,000 last rites performed in 3 days

3 years, 8 months ago

In Delhi, over 1,000 last rites performed in 3 days

The Hindu

Over a thousand residents, 1,057 to be precise, were laid to rest after losing their battle to COVID-19 in the last three days, according to official data maintained by the Capital’s three civic bodies. Municipal data According to the data, 290 last rites which included 273 cremations and 17 burials were performed on April 18; 357, including 334 cremations and …

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Delhi Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle to Manage Resources as Covid-19 Kills 409 in Just 13 Days

3 years, 8 months ago

Delhi Crematoriums, Graveyards Struggle to Manage Resources as Covid-19 Kills 409 in Just 13 Days

News 18

Mashqoor Rashid makes a grim projection as he oversees the burials of coronavirus victims’ bodies one after another at the city’s largest graveyard. Yesterday, 18 burials were performed.” Suman Gupta, the general secretary of Badi Panchayat Vaishya Beese Agarwal organisation that manages the city’s main crematorium at the Nigambodh Ghat, has an equally sobering number to share. According to North …

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Delhi's largest cemetery may soon run out of space to bury Covid-19 casualties

3 years, 8 months ago

Delhi's largest cemetery may soon run out of space to bury Covid-19 casualties

India Today

Delhi’s largest cemetery is struggling to find space to bury people dying of Covid-19. In the last four days, Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam near Delhi Gate has received an unprecedented number of Covid-19 dead bodies. Mohammed Shamim, the cemetery’s care taker, told India Today TV that the number of bodies of people dying of Covid-19 has increased since April 4. …

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Delhi's Oldest Graveyard Clears Space to Bury the Dead as Covid Casualties Rise

4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi's Oldest Graveyard Clears Space to Bury the Dead as Covid Casualties Rise

News 18

Workers were clearing undergrowth from wasteland on Tuesday to add 400 graves to the Indian capital’s oldest functioning cemetery beside the ruins of historic city walls, as the death toll from the coronavirus grows. “We weren’t expecting that we will have to clear more land for the graves,” said head gravedigger Mohammad Shameem, a 38-year-old in a pale green traditional …

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Irrfan Khan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar reacts to photo of his grave looking like ‘trash dumpster’, asks ‘Why should everything be exactly as per definition?’

4 years, 2 months ago

Irrfan Khan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar reacts to photo of his grave looking like ‘trash dumpster’, asks ‘Why should everything be exactly as per definition?’

Hindustan Times

Late actor Irrfan Khan’s wife, Sutapa Sikdar, has responded to a fan’s concerns about the actor’s grave being left untended to. Fans began pointing out this out after actor Chandan Roy Sanyal shared a picture of Irrfan’s grave, at the Versova Muslim Kabrastan in Mumbai. If you have a real recent photo of the graveyard, please Post it.” Sutapa in …

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More than 50 places you should see in Delhi

4 years, 2 months ago

More than 50 places you should see in Delhi

India Today

Delhi is divided as Old Delhi in the north which is the historic city and New Delhi in the south. Over the centuries, eight more cities came alive adjacent to Indraprastha: Lal Kot, Siri, Dinpanah, Quila Rai Pithora, Ferozabad, Jahanpanah, Tughlakabad and Shahjahanabad. It is home to three UNESCO World Heritage monuments Qutub Minar, Red Fort and Humayun’s Tomb. Indian …

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Offbeat Delhi: These 5 spectacular photowalk tours with your DSLR in the National Capital will surely take your breath away

4 years, 4 months ago

Offbeat Delhi: These 5 spectacular photowalk tours with your DSLR in the National Capital will surely take your breath away

Hindustan Times

What is it about the ruins and remaining vestiges of the past that feels so relatable and makes Delhi so royal? Tughlaqabad Fort The grandeur of Mughal architecture is not limited to the cliche sightseeing at Red Fort, Qutub Minar or Humayun’s Tomb. Ghalib ki haveli Irrespective of your literary interests, you cannot be in Delhi and afford to miss …

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