A Conversation With: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Category: Books, Cities, Delhi, Writing | Tags: History, India Ink, Interview, Lit feature, Mughals, Poetry, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, The Mirror of Beauty, The New York Times

A Conversation With: Literary Critic and Novelist Shamsur Rahman Faruqi ♦ India’s literary establishment is abuzz about the recently published novel “The Mirror of Beauty,” a 984-page fictional account about the life and times of Wazir Khanam, the mother of the famed Urdu poet Daag Dehalvi, set mostly in Delhi and its environs during the […]

Stirring the pot

Category: Cities, Delhi, Food and Drink, Time Out Delhi, Writing | Tags: Akbar, Babur, Caterers, Chaat, Falooda, Food, Fruit cream, Halwais, Jalebi, Kabab, Karim's, Kayasth, Kulfi, Kulle, Maryam Reshii, Mithai, Mughals, Nihari, Old Delhi, Paratha, Rahul Verma, Shahi tukda, Shahjahanabad, Sohail Hashmi, Street food, Urdu, Vegetarian

Delhi’s culinary melange ♦ Part of a Time Out Delhi food cover story, this is a short history of Delhi food, plus a guide to eating in the old city (published in 2008). Read the story as a PDF, find the text reproduced below, or download the PDF here. (Pairs well with this story on old Delhi […]

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A Conversation With: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

Stirring the pot