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Delhiwale: This way to Dilli Gate Qabristan
2 months, 1 week 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 …

Graves Begum Old Delhi Gate Qabristan
Delhiwale: Season’s first rain puddle
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhiwale: Season’s first rain puddle

Hindustan Times  

The season’s first rain puddle has momentarily transformed into a receptacle for Delhi’s history. The dirty water is reflecting the centuries-old Dilli Gate, one of the 14 gateways punctuating the 5.5-mile-long wall of the Walled City of Shahjahanabad. It is possible to climb Turkman Gate, but the access to the staircase is through the police post tucked behind the gateway, …

Delhi Wall Gate Gateway Dilli Gate
Delhiwale: Her poem on heatwave
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Delhiwale: Her poem on heatwave

Hindustan Times  

It is her first summer without “baba.” This time last year, poet Jonaki Ray’s father was “very happy” on receiving a copy of Firefly Memories, her debut collection of poems. “But my world is here—my friends, my day-job, my colleagues, my poems.” Jonaki amusedly wonders if such an unsolicited advice would have come her way if she were a woman …

Delhi Poem Dilli Jonaki
Delhiwale: Ruskin Bond’s unchanging Dilli
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhiwale: Ruskin Bond’s unchanging Dilli

Hindustan Times  

Happy Birthday, Ruskin Bond. Although the hill station of Landour in Mussoorie has been Ruskin Bond’s home since 1964, he would routinely travel to Delhi for book readings and lit fests, staying at the India International Centre. In fact, Ruskin Bond briefly lived at a series of Delhi addresses — starting with a tent on a treeless plain outside the …

Delhi Bond Ruskin Ruskin Bond
Delhiwale: Chronicling the march of time
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhiwale: Chronicling the march of time

Hindustan Times  

Once, this used to be an empty lot littered with the detritus of a collapsed mansion. While childbirths at the Kasturba Gandhi maternity hospital and wedding banquets in Mahavir Vatika continue to be punctuated by regular burials in Dilli Gate Qabristan, the fabric of Walled City’s daily life is altering profoundly. Making it a point to smile “despite the tragedies …

Wall Turkman Gate
Delhiwale: His story in history
10 months ago

Delhiwale: His story in history

Hindustan Times  

He picks up the incoming call, even as his alert gaze stays focused on the Ring Road, hands deftly manoeuvring the steering wheel. A chat in Punjabi follows, after which cab driver Taran Pal Singh makes a fresh phone call, bursting out: “Mummy, where was your nana living in Rawalpindi?” Cab driver Taran Pal Singh’s both sets of grandparents were …

Delhi Pal Haridwar Rawalpindi Taran Dilli Taran Pal
Delhiwale: Ali’s ‘darbar’ in ‘Purani Dilli’
2 years, 9 months ago

Delhiwale: Ali’s ‘darbar’ in ‘Purani Dilli’

Hindustan Times  

The door is coated with dust. In his late 60s, Ali remarks that the door was already there when his father, late Niyamat Ali, acquired the room for his work in 1953. The door marks the entry to Ali’s workshop; he is a “machine repairer”. During Partition, Muhammed Ali went to Karachi in Pakistan, and my father chose to stay …

Work Door Ali His Father Late Purani Dilli Machine Repairer