Encroachment on government land is hardly new in India, stretching from major cities to small towns. Often, authorities act only after courts step in. A similar dispute has now unfolded in the ...

Long before borders divided India and Pakistan, Mughal cities were mapped through direction and power. Delhi’s Red Fort opened towards Lahore, while Lahore’s historic gate faced Delhi, reflecting ...

In 1739, Persian ruler Nadir Shah invaded Delhi, defeated the Mughal army, and carried out a brutal sack of the city. Among ...

Built by Shah Jahan, named after a 13th-century Sufi saint, scarred during the Emergency and once again in focus after bulldozer action - Turkman Gate remains one of Delhi’s most sensitive heritage si ...

A legend that sprang up after the Turkman Gate killing is that when the shrine is disturbed, the government will fall, as it happened with the Indira Gandhi government.

It was in the mid-1970s that Turkman Gate was violently thrust into the national consciousness. This week’s clashes, though on a vastly different scale, have inevitably drawn a line back to 1976.