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Is the Nizamat imambara Murshidabad the largest in India? The present Nizamat Imambara was built in 1847 AD by Nawab Mansour...

World Heritage Week In Boronagar, Azimganj near Murshidabad I found this pair of abandoned Shiv and Durga temples. Must have...

Deep in the central ridge forest near Malcha Mahal is the medieval dargah of Khwaja Moluddin Chisti. Famous for his...

Mehboob e Ilahi Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya says of him "When in Delhi, I stayed by chance near Hazrat Baba Fareeduddin's...

By Pankaj K Deo Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi by Rana Safvi. HarperCollins. Pages 392. Rs 999 Ironically,...

Asian Age — Read on onlineepaper.asianage.com/articledetailpage.aspx

This is how dargahs would have celebrated urs everywhere. People putting up tents and staying there for a week or...

‪"Maza e khichdi wa biryani e shuma dar zamiistan yaad mi aayad"‬ ‪In winters #khichdi gives the joy of Biryani...

This week’s reading list includes a volume on old Delhi, another on Nepal, and a how-to book on throwing the...

Been coming to Mohalla Garhayya in Bareilly for years now but never knew of this lovely place. Many centuries ago...

Munshi Mohammed Ali Tashnah was an eccentric poet in Ghalib's era who came to mushairas in a state of inebriety...

Check out the books of the week... — Read on www.deccanherald.com/sunday-herald/sunday-herald-books/books-trending-this-week-771014.html

Chronogram for Rana Safvi’s book “Shahjahanabad- The Living City Of Delhi” قطعۂ تاریخ طباعت کتاب شاہجہاناباد बहुत शुक्रिया इस तोहफ़े...

For those of us who are obsessed with Shahjahanabad or Purani Dilli, the place represents a different universe of its...

11th October 2019 On pre orders Rank is 381 MashAllah and it's on the Bestseller list

When one sees the distance between the two places where Hazrat Abbas's arms attained shahadat and the third where he...

Machhli / Fish any fleshy fish 1/2 kg Laing, elaichi, dal Chini - powder 1/4 tsp Boiled potato -1 Besan...

Vasily Vereshchagin’s Suppression of the Indian Revolt by the English. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 1884, Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin painted his famous Suppression...

I grew up with stories about Jinn Mamu – whom we never addressed without the suffix of ‘uncle’, because they...

Excerpted with permission from The Forgotten Cities of Delhi by Rana Safvi, author-historian currently living in Delhi who is also the author of Where Stones...

In India, following the Barahmasa tradition (twelve months) the glory of each month is lovingly celebrated with poetry, music and art. Since...

April 7 marks the 138th death anniversary of Begum Hazrat Mahal, a woman who has gone down in history for her...

Stories of kings and queens fascinate all children and we were no different. We never grew tired of hearing Amma...

Butkhano'n mein jab gaya main kenchkar qashqa Zafar Bol utha woh but, 'Brahmin yeh nahin to kaun hai?' (When...

As winter approaches we start getting fresh cauliflowers. I chanced upon one with leaves and before the vendor could hack...

Though many verses were written to the beloved, there was never an attempt to understand her feelings. Why was she...