The Eid e Milad un Nabi week saw a function in JNU organised by the students to emphasise Sufism and...

Anhad means limitless. Had means boundry and anhad which has no boundry. The word Anhad frequently used by Kabir A...

https://youtu.be/0f2XCfDJb9Q Dwarka Baat Cheet: Rana Safvi- Safeguarding Diversity and Pluralism in Contemporary India: A wonderful discussion in Dwarka Collective on...

A discussion on Where Stones Speak Historical Trails in Mehrauli The first city of Delhi With noted author and journalist...

An inter faith meeting was organised on 2nd December by the  mutawalli of Sibtainabad imambara Lucknow on occasion of Arbaeen...

A wonderful session with the members of the history society Dastaan of Convent of Jesus & Mary, New Delhi I...

Moderating a panel discussion on story telling with Prof Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Sahab A heritage walk for Sanchari in Khusrau...

Panel Discussion on Internet ki Duniya Mein Urdu https://youtu.be/tA3eb3f8neA

On 9th February 2014 The Craft of Poetry: Shifting Contours, 6:00 PM Ashok Chakradhar, K.Satchidanandan, Rana Safvi, Dr. Vanita

Moderating a panel on Dilli hai shahr shayron ka With Dr Rakshanda Jalil, Mrs Kamna Prasad and Dr Bardloi in...

Having grown up hearing and then later read "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Florence was one of my places to...

Nov 2009 After a overnight journey in the famous "sleeper train" from Cairo to Luxor we reached Luxor.Our program had...

As our ship neared the Esna lock, it slowed down. Dusk was just falling, and we were all of us...

A moment of madness in the shape of self glorification and you have spoilt years and years of glorious work....

Nov 2009 From Luxor our ship sailed to Aswan. In Aswan itself there are a gems of a temple called...

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The new Boeing 787...

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw...

Freiburg was founded by the Dukes of Zähringen in 1120. After the House of Zähringen built a castle on Schloßberg...

When we were planning our itinerary we tried as far as possible to be near Mother Nature. Since our final...

Though purists feel that Neuschwanstein or the New Swan Castle is not a true castle please do make every effort...

From the time one enters Freiburg it seems we have fallen into the pages of a story book. the Grimm...

An early start took us to Bonn. This was one city I didn't research because I was very sure references...

A trip to Trier in Germany. An ancient city with majestic architecture. Birthplace of Karl Marx.

In 1838 the French novelist Victor Hugo wrote "The Rhine combines everything. The Rhine is swift as the Rhône, wide...

On 14th Sept, Saif and I came to Dusseldorf to meet and join my husband for the rest of the...

On Jan. 16, 1945 Hitler went in almost unnoticed into his underground shelter. Berlin was burning and while the ordinary...

Neue Wache We left the Museum Island and walked on to Unter den Linden Street. There is no missing a...