Construction of infrastructure and the urban built environment is one of the few growing areas of economic in India. Yet…
हौज़ ई शमशी
I’ve been writing on the history of Delhi’s water infrastructures recently and a friend passed me this great article by…
‘vicious lobbying and unscrupulous wire pulling’
Some lovely writing in this 1939 account of the challenges of late colonial planning enforcement. Still feels quite relevant… _…
‘organisation of office’
This comment on the Municipal administration by an incoming Secretary of the Municipal Corporation in 1938 seems to prefigure contemporary…
Rain Gambling and Opium Gambling
I found this rather strange folder in the Delhi archives: 1899/14 Rain Gambling – regarding gambling and opium. A notice…
Uday Prakash – Broken women, Nehru-ji and Astaachal
New translation of Uday Prakash’s story खंडित स्त्रियों, नेहरूजी और अस्ताचल. Udayji writes about this story as his first, ‘written…
On Delhi’s pre-colonial water systems
‘The canal, shortly after entering on and skirting the base of the range of hills west of Delhi (the drainage…
देवता और किसान – क्रश्न चन्दर
I’ve had a shot at translating Krishan Chander’s Devta Aur Kisaan, a short story from 1983. Chander (1914-1977)…
केदारनाथ सिंह – बाज़ार
बाज़ार – केदारनाथ सिंह ‘आओ बाज़ार चलें’ उसने कहा ‘बाज़ार में क्या है’? मैंने पूछा ‘बाज़ार में धूल है’ उसने हंसते…
