On the road from Chawri bazar Metro Station to Jama Masjid there is one of the prettiest mosques in Delhi....

Momin Khan Momin is one of the greats of Urdu poetry. A contemporary of Ghalib it is said that Ghalib...

"Meri Tehzeeb ke sab rang bhi Kya le gayiN daadi LaboN par paan Ki surkhi, na hathoN me "sarauta" hai!!"...

Shaami Kebab is one of the many local variants of the Kebab from Afghanistan and India. Shami Kebab has its...

First Coronation of Aurangzeb As astrologers indicated Wednesday the 21st July / l s t Z i l Q. ,...

shamaa ki maanind ham is bazm men chashm-nam aaye the daaman-tar chale Like a candle to this gathering I came...

Street vendors Gaushaala in the middle of Delhi The sacrificial lamb/goat ( literally as it is 2 days to Eid...

Hauz Khas, a posh residential area today famous for its fashionable Village, was once part of Delhi's second city, Siri...

Not much is known about Bibi Fatima Sam except that she was the adopted sister of Baba Farid and her...

Photograph by Arpita Sen The enthusiastic participation of the Muslims in the Hindu religious festivities celebrated under the patronage of...

“Those who cannot benefit from my silence will never benefit from my words.” -Khwaja Baqi Billah I had set out...

This is a painting made by Keshav Venkataraghavan In 1840 a small Kali Temple was established in Delhi's Nigambodh Ghat...

In the midst of posh bungalows In Delhi's Hauz Khas area there is a very strange monument which resembles a...

Who can determine The cost of dying in love? Every such matryrdom Is an obligation on me. For it is...

  ( I'm wearing my grandmother 's antique farshi gharara - over a hundred years old and a karchob dupatta...

I have visited Humayun's tomb many a times but never ventured into the Sunder Nursery. Thanks to Sanjeev Singh who...

If its Thursday night it has to be qawwali sessions at the Dargah of Hazrat Qutub Sahab or Hazrat Nizamuddin...

Near the Pragati Maidan metro overbridge entrance is a monument which though structurally nondescript is the resting place of one...

The word angarkha is supposed to be taken from the Sanskrit Angrakshak which means to protect the limbs. It is ...

  Who would have thought that these rocks   hid a secret from 3rd century BC? Had it not been...

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars...

This is a map taken from www.archinomy.com of what Ferozabad ( Though the word Kushk eis used for a palace...

Firuz Shah Tughlaq is known as India’s first conservationist and builder. He not only built many hospitals, sarais, mosques and...

10th September 2014 Whenever I have any free time in Delhi I love to connect with Asif Khan Dehelvi and...

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...