Mirza Ghalib Ki Haveli

In the densely populated neighbourhood of Old Delhi, in the hustle and bustle of Ballimaran, there once lived the man who changed the world of Urdu poetry forever. Mirza…

Shri Sardar Ghee

What defines a city? Is it the art and architecture, the cultural capital, the physical geography, local politics or something else? A city is like an unending tapestry of…

Layallpur Waale

The famous Standard Sweets, better known as Layallpur Waale, after the Pakistani village from where the founder came to India in 1946, is now run by his grandson.

A few…

Haveli Nawab Mirza Dawud Khan

Nawab Mirza Dawud Khan was a minister in the court of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Dawud Khan resided in a haveli located in Churi Walan near Chawri Bazaar in…

Music in the time of Muhammad Shah Rangila

Of the many hundreds of pen names that crowd the columns of Urdu poetry none is perhaps as apt or true as Rangila (Joyous), the moniker of the 14th…