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July 27, 2009
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CITY LIMIT
Delhi's Architectural Face
As we move through the city, how do we react to the buildings
surrounding us? Love them, deplore them, ignore them? Tripti Lahiri does a site inspection, checking out the good, the bad, and the ugly.
TRIPTI LAHIRI
Web | Jun 18, 2008
CITY LIMITS
GILLIAN WRIGHT
Urdu And The City
When spoken, a language is mainly practical. To transcend into art, it must be written, its words shaped into poems, stories, and plays. So can written Urdu, once the medium of Delhi's literary artists, still be found in the city?
Web | Apr 10, 2008
CITY LIMITS
Active Urdu
Latin might be a dead language, but Urdu is alive and well. Here are some places to learn it from in Delhi
Web | Apr 10, 2008
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Din Dunia
A day in the life of the writer, designer, editor, publisher, printer, and owner of a historical Urdu magazine, which in his own words is "financially unviable".
MAYANK AUSTEN SOOFI
Web | Apr 10, 2008
CITY LIMIT
Getting There?
Is the end of Delhi's transport hell in sight?
There are many questions. The authorities offer a traffic jam of answers.
NITYA RAO
Web | Mar 01, 2008
CITY LIMIT
Congestion Pricing
Massive road-building exercises, paradoxically, have only paved way for a future of worsening gridlock...
Web | Mar 01, 2008
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Wanted: A Pedestrian /Cyclist-Friendly City
"Most Indian roads have been constructed so that they're car-friendly, not people-friendly"
Web | Mar 01, 2008
 CAPITAL LETTERS
MANJULA PADMANABHAN
Cold Comfort
Low temperatures, fog and migratory visitors -- that's what winter in Delhi means for me
Web | Jan 23, 2008
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SARNATH BANERJEE
Video Days in Delhi
It was the early '90s. New channels were popping up by the minute. They offered quick money, fast and loose lifestyles. Attractive girls were picked up as trainee correspondents...
Web | Jan 23, 2008
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NAVTEJ SARNA
Cycles of Time
An instant decision, a quick negotiation for a ride a back to the market for a tenner and I was being driven imperiously through the milling crowds...
Web | Jan 23, 2008
CITY LIMITS
Reading Delhi
It's a city of many chapters. Five Dilliwallas of letters on their favourite Delhi books - and the ones they're waiting for
JAI ARJUN SINGH
Web | Jan 15, 2008
READING DELHI
NARAYANI GUPTA
'Where Is The Jamia, DU Or JNU Novel?'
Delhi is old, Delhi is a large city. But sadly, the number of books which capture the histories and landscapes of Delhi is not large.
Web | Jan 15, 2008
 READING DELHI
RANJIT LAL
'There Isn't An Identifiable Ethos'
Different pockets of the city have completely different cultures. I'm a bit surprised by the paucity of fiction, because Delhi can be so full of interesting stories for people to write about.
Web | Jan 15, 2008
 READING DELHI
KRISHNA SOBTI
"Delhi has no culture"
The generation of immigrants born post-Independence never really got a full sense of the city they had moved to, and instead idealised their native villages.
Web | Jan 15, 2008
 READING DELHI
PATWANT SINGH
'Our Writers Have Little Integrity'
'Literature here is mostly still written to present the smoothest possible picture and to impress outsiders.'
Web | Jan 15, 2008
 READING DELHI
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'Several Gaps In Writing On Delhi'
But I'm particularly astonished that there isn't a good biography of Shah Jahan or a modern description of the building of Shahjahanabad.
Web | Jan 15, 2008
READING DELHI
City Library
50 Essential Delhi Books
Web | Jan 15, 2008
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GILLIAN WRIGHT
What Lies Beneath
The archaeologists have dug up the past—they could bury it too...
Web | Dec 13, 2007
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RAGHU KARNAD
Serious
Busyness
To lack any public display of productivity seems a wasted opportunity to pinch the consciences of unproductive Dilliwalas...
Web | Dec 13, 2007
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SUBHADRA SEN GUPTA
Song Of The Streets
Before the advertising jingles filled our heads with nagging tunes, there were the calls of vendors and some of them have stayed with me...
Web | Dec 13, 2007
 INTERVIEW
EBRAHIM ALKAZI
Theatrewallah
...on his time spent as Director of the National School of Drama, and his impressive photo collection
NITYA RAO
Web | Dec 13, 2007
DELHI: CITY LIMITS
Once There Was A River
And we'd like to think there always will be. Charting and rediscovering the
perilous course of Delhi's historic waterway, the neglected Yamuna.
AMITA BAVISKAR
Web | Dec 11, 2007
CITY LIMITS
Lutyens' Delhi
He's a one-man brand for New Delhi's
heritage but does he deserve all the credit? Setting the record straight
AMAN NATH
Web | Oct 01, 2007
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Lutyens' Bungalow!
Viceroy's House was not just an "Englishman dressed for the climate". Nor were the Indian craftsmen tailors from Agra or Benares.
AMAN NATH
Web | Oct 01, 2007
MUSIC
Delhi School Of Music
Is there such a thing? Yes. And it traces its origins to the time of the Delhi Sultanate. And it began with two brothers -- one deaf and the other dumb as well as deaf.
IRFAN ZUBERI
Web | Aug 16, 2007
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