New Delhi Archives

A Day in the Life of Delhi’s Rohingya Refugee

The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to provide citizenship to persecuted minority refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, thousands of Rohingya Muslims, a minority in Myanmar who've fled genocide, continue to live in inhuman conditions across the country.

Parthshri Arora July 28, 2016

People

Jab Main Office Baccha Tha Badi Shararat Karta Tha

Are you at that phase of your career when expectation levels are at zero and indulgence levels are set to max? Enjoy it. Save the existential angst for later in your career. The days of this happy, consequence-free existence that you’re too ignorant to enjoy right now, are numbered.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 25, 2016

POV

Paranoiac Activity: The Birth of the Anxious Parent

In light of the Gurgaon incident, parents have to balance a tightrope: To have a keen eye on everyone who interacts with their child, but equally, to refrain from treating everyone as a predator.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 13, 2016

People

The 22-Day Hunt for a Man-Eater

Robin Mistri looks like your favourite Parsi uncle, but his deadly aim has taken down 14 man-eating leopards. He hates his job, but someone’s gotta do it.

Sharan Saikumar July 13, 2016

Gender

Kerala HC’s Ruling Against Sexist Hostel Rules Has Shown the Way. Time for All Our Universities to Follow

The Kerala High Court recently upheld that women students have the same freedoms as men. The implications of these college rules go far beyond the campus. It goes against the understanding that the potential of young women is up for sacrifice without a second thought, as long as we can keep them in line.

Kahini Iyer May 23, 2016

Earth

And Then the Smog Struck

In Delhi, we’ve never actually done anything. At best, we’ve pointed out the flaws and the issues plaguing us; at worst, we’ve exploited them. We were smug. Until the smog struck.

Akhil Sood April 30, 2016

People

Breaking Bad in Delhi’s Azadpur

Asia’s biggest vegetable mandi is at the centre of a sprawling drug trade. It’s a natural match, considering the market’s life of hard knocks and harder labour requires some relief.

Parthshri Arora April 27, 2016

People

Indira Gandhi’s Assassination and the Tale of Two Childhoods

For me, Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the riots that followed was just a detail, merely newsprint. The impersonal nature of the incident insulated me from the human aspect of the killing. That is, until decades later, the tragedy of 1984’s events came home to me.

Karthik Venkatesh March 15, 2016

DisArré

SHOCKING! Donald Trump Jr Asks Delhi Man if He Knows Who His Father Is

The world’s foremost investigative journalists, Weedward & Bongstein, were at the scene when US President’s son got into an argument with a Delhi man over Honey Singh and Ivanka Trump.

Weedward and March 9, 2016