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A public library in a scholar’s house (opens the original)
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Some personalities are autochthonous to Delhi. Politicians and lawyers claim the first rank, but academics are not far behind. Academia is an old habit here, a stereotype most universities have done little to disturb: sensible sandals, a canvas bag, an unhurried manner of speech. There is comfort in living in a city full of such people. The question worth asking is how they actually live. Between panel discussions, lectures, and the long hours of reading, where does the observation happen that l
Narela: From caravan serai to ghost town (opens the original)
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A watercolour currently held at the British Library, London, shows over dozen tents pitched on open ground. It is labelled “Begum Somroo’s Camp near Hansi” from the collection ‘Views by Seeta Ram from Gheen to Delhi Vol. VI’ produced for Lord Moira, the Marquess of Hastings. The then governor-general of Bengal passed through this spot on 26 January 1815 on his way back to Delhi after a long march through Punjab. Begum Samru, a mighty queen who ran her own army and territory from Sardhana, hosted
The paying guest: Delhi’s temporary tenant (opens the original)
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Every excavation in Delhi turns up the same story at a different depth. Scrape past the mound at Purana Qila and you find layer upon layer of people who came, held the ground for a dynasty or two, and left the next occupant to build straight over their floor. Nobody in this city has ever owned the ground for very long. They have leased it, for a reign, for a posting, for a five-year exam cycle, and then someone else has laid a fresh course of brick on top. The paying guest is that same stratigra
Withdrawing from drawing rooms (opens the original)
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The word “drawing room” comes from the 16th-century English phrase “withdrawing room” – a room where the host and guests would withdraw after dinner for conversation while servants cleared the table. During the colonial period, this idea entered South Asia, especially among aristocratic households, princely states, and the emerging urban elite. The living room is a later construct, where functionality and intimacy predominated. In the South Asian context, the ceremony of the drawing room and the
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