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City Food – Shikanji, Around Town

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May 11, 2012
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Chill of the lemon. The simplest things in life are the most exquisite. As you walk in the scorching heat of Connaught Place, the sun is white, and the air is still and dusty. You are sweating and your throat is dry. Suddenly you come across a...
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City Food – Raw Vegetables, Around Town

April 24, 2012
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Heat relief. Delhi food is laden with butter gravies and tandoori meats offering no respite to the digestion. Relief is to be found in cut vegetables, served raw with a sprinkle of masala salt. In summer, the street hawkers fill their carts with cucumbers and their slimmer...
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Mission Delhi – Syed Ameen Meer Dehlvi, Chandni Mahal

April 28, 2012

One of the one percent in 13 million. The cat is observing...
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Mission Delhi – Tasleem Bibi, Matia Mahal

April 4, 2012

One of the one percent in 13 million. She is sitting at...
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Mission Delhi – Billi, Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah

March 15, 2012

One of the one percent in 13 million. He gazes down on...
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City Hangout – Palika Parking Park, Connaught Place

A refuge for rejects. The most liberating space for Delhi’s social rejects lies in the heart of the capital. The park above Palika Bazaar parking in the colonial-era Connaught Place is one of those rare public places in the city where the jobless, the homosexuals, the eunuchs,...

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