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