Wednesday, Jul 06, 2022
Jun 02, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja I was part of a group on a walk through the station and Paharganj led by Javed and Shekhar, both young men,...
May 19, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja The vast estate of Begam Samru, all around her haveli, once stretching almost from the Old Delhi Railway...
May 12, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja Three Catholics, a Muslim and a very lapsed Hindu went to the Church of Our Lady of Vailankanni in Delhi....
Apr 28, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja Heard of Pir Ghaib—the invisible, mazaar-less saint? You don't believe in invisible presences in the world?...
Apr 21, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja I had asked James, "You live in a cemetery. Aren't you afraid of the ghosts?" He had only laughed. "There...
Apr 14, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja One day, in his old age, the good king Anang Pal Tomar decided to go on long pilgrimage, and leave the...
Mar 30, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja Ever endured a ghazalling dinner? Do you know what a ghazal is? Are you thinking Pankaj Udhas? You are? Uh,...
Mar 17, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja Doing my Majaz/Frost dead poet act. City Night and I wander glum and unemployed. I have been one acquainted...
Mar 10, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja Delhi trembling with fear. That panicked city on the TV is not my city. That city exists only on the planet...
Mar 10, 2006 Anand Vivek Taneja "Let's create some mahaul." Atmosphere. Voices blend in soulful, sonorous sorrow. It isn't good enough,...
