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Exploring Qutb complex is like un-layering the very root of the city of Delhi. When exactly the city began here, no one is quite sure.

March 8, 2016

Early in January 1857, at the Dumdum cantonment near Calcutta, a Brahmin sepoy was walking down to his post to prepare his food with a

January 17, 2016

The tourist triangle of Delhi, Jaipur and Agra is probably the most popular in the country – thanks to seven world heritage sites in their

January 1, 2016

Where with right pomp the stately domes arise: In yon dark tower an aged monarch lies, Forlorn, dejected, blind, replete with woes: In tears

October 17, 2015

In the heyday of her unusual sway over the Mughal empire, Qudsia Begum — wife of the emperor Muhammad Shah, and mother of his successor-son,

September 8, 2015

The now-disappeared city of Siri has a somewhat grim and frightful legend behind it: its name ‘Siri’ is believed to have come from the word

July 26, 2015

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