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Sundar Nursery: Delhi’s Leisure Garden and a Mughal Sarai
The weather in Delhi is very harsh, all through the year, but there are days during these harsh weather spells when the wind is soothing...

Arya Sethi
Jan 29, 20224 min read


Delhi: A Critical Eulogy
of all the things used to describe delhi/dilli/दिल्ली, I’d call it — the crossbred offspring of the numerous rulers from the Sultanate,...

Arya Sethi
Jan 20, 20222 min read


The Amruttulya Tea Drinking Culture of Pune
The process of tea drinking eventually became a public act with people coming from different socio-economic backgrounds to avail a...

Arya Sethi
Dec 8, 20201 min read


The Culture of Food: Delhi’s Gastronomical Sensibility
The city of Delhi as we knew it in 1947, has fundamentally changed. Pre-1947, Delhi was the city of Shahjahanabad mainly and after the...

Arya Sethi
Oct 26, 20205 min read


The Indian Coffee Saga (Insaniyat Excerpts)
I’m glad you stumbled upon this article, because now we’re taking you onto a mystical coffee journey into the misty forests of...

Arya Sethi
Aug 21, 20202 min read


THE ICONIC PHOOL WALON KI SAIR (Insaniyat Excerpts)
The Phool Walon Ki Sair or the procession of the florists is one of the oldest and most prominent festivals in Indian History. The...

Arya Sethi
Aug 7, 20202 min read


MUGHALS, CULINARY ARTS, AND CULTURE
The Ain-i-Akbari written by Abul Fazl, the court chronicler of Mughal emperor Akbar, mentions that Akbar’s court had a Minister for...

Arya Sethi
Jul 20, 20204 min read


SouganDilli: An Indo-Iranian Adhuri Kahani
SouganDilli Indo-Iranian Adhuri Kahani (An incomplete Indo-Iranian story) Author: Sougand Akbarian Publisher: Damick Publications...

Arya Sethi
Jul 18, 20202 min read


CULINARY TRADITIONS OF RAJASTHAN
Rajasthan is a land that is rich with history and stories of color, tradition, art, and food. Each part of the city is embossed with the...

Arya Sethi
Jul 8, 20202 min read


The Power, Prominence and Mansions of Eunuchs
It is a sad reality that a city that used to give top positions and social acceptance to Eunuchs during the Mughal Empire, today they...

Arya Sethi
Jun 3, 20202 min read
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