Tag Archives: delhi
Jalebis and Bread Pakoras
At the mosque attached to Agrasen ki Baoli, New Delhi
Restoration Work at Isa Khan’s Tomb
Isa Khan’s tomb had been closed and off limits for many months (maybe a couple of years) due to restoration work, and was thrown back open just a little while ago, but they still seem to be continuing with restoration work, Continue reading
Another Thursday at Nizamuddin’s Dargah
I live very close to Nizamuddin’s dargah and get to visit off and on (especially when friends and family come visiting Delhi), and I usually cannot help posting a few photos from these visits! Continue reading
Revisiting Buildings around Nizamuddin Basti
While walking around Nizamuddin in early November, I was able to take photos of structures I wasn’t able to before, or from views and angles I wasn’t able to before. Continue reading
Thursday Morning at Nizamuddin’s Dargah
Some photos from a visit to Nizamuddin’s dargah on November 6th, 2014. Continue reading
Two photos of the same place, taken five and a half years apart
Two photos, taken about five and a half years apart, of the side of Khan Jahan TIlangani’s tomb in Nizamuddin basti. Some things has changed a bit, much remains the same.
Here’s the first image, taken on March 31, 2009:
And the second photo taken on November 06, 2014:
“Dara Shikoh’s Library” at Kashmiri Gate
I got a chance to visit Ambedkar University Delhi’s campus at Kashmiri Gate (a campus that it shares with a couple of other universities), and explored the purported library of Dara Shikoh, which was turned into the British Residency (offices?) in the first half of the 19th c, and which is now used as ASI offices. Continue reading
Shalimar Cinema
After my Old Delhi cinema halls post I remembered a theater that lay along my usual commute in Delhi when I was younger. The cinema hall was called Shalimar, located the Siddharth Enclave area near Ashram Chowk, and in my memory resembled a large shed with sloping asbestos (?) sheet roofing. I used to notice it often when passing over the flyover between Ashram Chowk and Bhogal/Jangpura. That flyover is still part of my usual commute, but I haven’t seen the theater since sometime in the 1980s or 90s. Continue reading
Sarson ke Khet 