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Delhi Ghost Trail
A new type of guided tour has come to Delhi: ghost-stalking. The Delhi-based travel company Lets Get Packing has teamed up with the Paranormal Society to offer “Creatures of the Night”, a tour of haunted parts of the old city, including one of the landmarks of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park…
381 years ago this June
On June 17th 1631, in the central Indian town of Burhanpur, a royal wife died in childbirth at the age of 38, after delivering her fourteenth child. She was Arjumand Bano, better known as Mumtaz Mahal, one of the many wives of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Six hundred and…
Blue Guide India Delhi Launch
The Delhi launch of Blue Guide India by Sam Miller took place on Thursday 12th January in the grounds of the Lodi restaurant, close to the magnificent medieval tombs of the Lodi Gardens. More than a hundred guests gathered on a bitterly cold Delhi evening for cocktails, and to watch…
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All new first edition, all India in one volume. The result of four years’ work by Delhi-based Sam Miller, head of the BBC Trust in India. See the contents, index and sample pages, and buy online direct from the publisher. Available in print and as an e-book by chapter.
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
Sam Miller, Vintage 2010 Sam Miller is quick to tell us that he loves walking in strange cities. So do I. And it is this that has always bothered me about Delhi, a city I have never visited but have often longed to see: how will I get around it?…
