Badaun’s rich cultural history and Sufi past, as also its proximity to the power centre in Delhi, has been relegated to the ash-heap of history, rendered obsolete by the bugbear of electoral ...

NEW DELHI: The Hauz-i-Shamsi — a reservoir in Mehrauli built by 13th century Delhi Sultanate ruler Shamsuddin Iltutmish due to a dream — has seen better days.Once, it covered over a hundred ...

The Eidgah was built in the early Sultanate period by Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish's son, Nasiraruddin Mahmud. Over the past eight centuries, the Eidgah witnessed no prayers in 1982 and a decade ...