My favourite part of the Sikkim trip was the drive from Lachung to Yumthang and Zero Point With Naheed Abidi...

  The recent controversy about Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati led to me read up on the Padmavat or Padumavat by Malik Muhammad...

addressed to his son, Ishrat, who went away to study in London) London ko ChoRh laRke, ab Hind ki khabar...

At Zero Point Yumthang November 2025

Good morning from Gayzing with the Kanchenjunga giving the colour November 2015 j

A steep uphill climb through chestnut trees and moss with humorous ASI boards to encourage us Rabdentse was worth the...

This one tells us of Akbar Allahabadi's pain when his son lost touch with his own culture and became very...

#Akbar alAllahabadi birth anniversary We used to love it when Amma used to recite this Kaha Majnu se ye Laila...

Allahabad Public Library also known asThornhill Mayne Memorial is a public library situated at Alfred Park in Allahabad. Established in...

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The sub-continent celebrates Urdu Day on November 9. It is time to clear the air around Urdu and give it...

Via Asad Zaidi  एक पुरानी तस्वीर : आगरे में मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब का घर (मोहल्ला कलाँ महल), जहाँ १७९७ में उनका...

Zafar Mahal built by Akbar Shah II then and now A painting from Bahadur Shah Zafar 's reign Now

#JaunEliya ( people wonder at the name) The original Jaun or Jon bin Huwai was a companion of Hazrat Ali. He...

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A few years ago I had read an essay titled "Composite Culture, Community and Identity: Interface with Social Change in...

Once somebody's tomb which the British converted into a Primary heath centre in Mehrauli

Aala Hazrat  Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Urdu: احمد رضاخان بریلوی, Hindi: अहमद रज़ा खान, 1856–1921 CE or 10 October 1272__25...

Khanqah e Niyazia Isa-e-Maryami Manam,  Ahmad-e-Hashmi Manam,  Haider-e-Sher-e-Nar Manam,  Mann Na Manam, Na Mann Manam. Mary's Christ, I am, I...

Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in west central India. The observatories,...

When I visited Malcha Mahal.Princess Wilayat Mahal descendant of Nawab Wajid ALI Shah lived here with her daughter and son...

Inside BulbuliWaali Masjid This is behind Asiad Village and impossible to locate without help

Beautiful medallions and calligraphy in the Mohammad Waali mosque in Siri, Delhi's second city

The lone surviving #bastion of #Siri second of the seven cities of medieval #Delhi built around 1303 by #Alauddin Khilji...

Times are tough for India’s monument to love. Air pollution is turning its marble surface yellow. Restoration work is obscuring...

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"Kashishay kay ishq dard, na-dard kasay badeinsaanBa janaza gar na aaee, ba mazaar khwahee aamad" It is from the famous...

When Mumtaz Mahal passed away, Bebadal Khan wrote the chronogram for her that yielded 1040 — the Hijri year of...