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  What stands today is not just a venue for government events, but a think tank and a resource centre for university students and those aspiring to join the civil services. “There aren’t too many restrictions as far as the library is concerned,” revealed Sharma. “There is open access to the stacks of books. We want more people to come here and continue reading and researching instead of relying just on the internet. ”
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 Another popular folktale from the area goes that the Gujjars of Khanpur saved a royal retinue from being attacked by highwaymen on the way to Nizamuddin dargah from Mehrauli. Impressed by their act of bravery, the king awarded them land near the dargah to protect all those who travelled on the route and ensure the safety of those who spent the night in the sarai.
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	What stands today is not just a venue for government events, but a think tank and a resource centre for university students and those aspiring to join the civil services. “There aren’t too many restrictions as far as the library is concerned,” revealed Sharma. “There is open access to the stacks of books. We want more people to come here and continue reading and researching instead of relying just on the internet. ”		What stands today is not just a venue for government events, but a think tank and a resource centre for university students and those aspiring to join the civil services. “There aren’t too many restrictions as far as the library is concerned,” revealed Sharma. “There is open access to the stacks of books. We want more people to come here and continue reading and researching instead of relying just on the internet. ”
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		+	[https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/history-sarai-kale-khan-gujjar-stronghold-to-bhagwan-birsa-munda-chowk-9673490/ Upasika Singhal, Nov 17, 2204: ''The Indian Express'']
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		+	A bastion of Gujjar-dominated villages boasting fierce warriors, with land spread out from Purana Qila in the Northwest to Taimoor Nagar in the South of what is now Delhi. Or a place of rest and recuperation for weary travellers? — Sarai Kale Khan is famous for many things but finding a mention of it in official government records is a tough task.
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		+	On Friday, the Sarai Kale Khan Chowk was renamed ‘Bhagwan Birsa Munda Chowk’, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurating the tribal cultural icon’s statue on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary year.
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		+	Zafar Hasan, in his exhaustive work, List of Muhammadan and Hindu Monuments, Volume IV, mentions Sarai Kale Khan being situated in a village named Bahlolpur Bangar. He wrote, “The sarai of Kale Khan which is constructed of rubble masonry was originally surrounded by arched cells, with their outer walls crowned by battlements. Most of these cells have now fallen down, and the rest which stand are used by villagers as residential houses. It is said to have contained a gateway on the north and west, but both of them have disappeared.”
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		+	Maulvi Hasan also mentioned a tomb 150 yards from the sarai, constructed of plaster and rubble, which was in a dilapidated condition and contained no grave.
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		+	Who is the mysterious Kale Khan though? To unravel this, one must first understand where the sarai system came from.
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		+	In the chapter, Caravanserais Along the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan, Saifur Rahman Dar points out in the book, The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce, that no one knows when exactly the Grand Trunk Road was built. Precursor forms of the road existed during the time of Panini and Chandragupta Maurya, and repairs were undertaken under Sher Shah Suri’s rule.
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		+	During the arterial road’s reconstruction, Sher Shah Suri would emphasise the need to build rest stops for travellers. In his article, Sarais in Mughal India, history professor Nazer Aziz Anjum writes, “(Sher Shah Suri) initiated building of sarais on a large scale on routes basically for the need of state and partially for the need of wayfarers… it was during the Mughal period that work of building sarais was carried out on an extensive scale.”
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		+	Meanwhile, history presents three possibilities for the person behind the name — Mubarak Khan Lohani, whose eternal resting place in South Extension is named Kale Khan Gumbad; Kale Khan, a Sufi saint from the reign of Sher Shah Suri, whose tomb now rests near Delhi Airport’s Terminal 2; and Kale Khan, the spiritual advisor and friend of Mirza Ghalib, whose house Ahata Kale Khan still stands in Ballimaran’s Gali Qasim Jan.
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		+	Delhi chronicler and journalist R V Smith seemed to be equally baffled by the three men who shared the same name. However, he agreed that Sarai Kale Khan was likely named after Ghalib’s friend. “Kale Khan who built a sarai in Southeast Delhi was probably born in the early nineteenth century and lived on to see the Mutiny of 1857 and its aftermath,” writes Smith in his book, Delhi: Unknown Tales of a City.
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		+	He explains further that Khan was probably born with another name, but received the nickname ‘Kale Khan’ because of his dark complexion.
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		+	Smith also mentions that Kale Khan would have probably witnessed the 1857 Mutiny since a snippet of history does emerge from the area just after the violence had died down. Gujjars pastoralists and farmers have long been settled in the area since the land near the Yamuna provided rolling grasslands for their cattle to graze on. However, in the short duration of lawlessness after the Mutiny, many local Gujjars from Sarai Kale Khan formed raiding parties and wreaked havoc on neighbouring villages.
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		+	In the present day, the urban village of Sarai Kale Khan is still dominated by Gujjars. But their version of the area’s history differs. According to local Vicky Choudhary, Kale Khan was a peer and a sant, a devout Gaud Brahmin forced to convert to Islam to save his life. “He was the one who made the sarai for travellers… in 1650, the Gujjar community from Khanpur shifted near the sarai… land was good and there were vast fields for the cattle to graze in,” he said.
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		+	Another popular folktale from the area goes that the Gujjars of Khanpur saved a royal retinue from being attacked by highwaymen on the way to Nizamuddin dargah from Mehrauli. Impressed by their act of bravery, the king awarded them land near the dargah to protect all those who travelled on the route and ensure the safety of those who spent the night in the sarai.

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 Lack of schools and exposure to the vices push the unemployed youths from this resettlement colony into the world of crime.
 According to the police, 90% of the juvenile criminals belong to these two localities.Sangam Vihar was once dominated by six organised gangs. Following the arrest of the leaders, the gangs disintegrated and some splinter groups emerged. Juveniles from this area often resort to violence at the slightest provocation.
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 Residents and traders want the problem solved at the earliest. “The criminals disappear when police patrol comes here, but they are are back once the cops are gone,“ said a local trader.
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 DJB vice-chairman Raghav Chadha said that the board was working to realise the vision of Delhi becoming the City of Lakes. “We have successfully cleaned Sanjay Van lake and deployed floating rafters to enhance its water quality. This will not only beautify the lake, but also improve groundwater table,” he claimed.
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-Conservators have made a stunning discovery on the domed ceiling of the 16th-century Sabz Burj, a Mughal monument near Humayun's tomb: hidden paintings in blue, yellow, red and white, and some even in gold.
-The conservators, working under the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Archaeological Survey of India, and experts say this is the first time early 16th century wall paintings have been found on a monument in Delhi.
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-Sabz Burj (or Green Tower, although the dome is blue on the outside), is among the earliest Mughal buildings influenced by Timurid architecture and richly ornamented with incised plasterwork, glazed ceramic tiles and decorative lattice stonework. Conservation work began in November.
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-“On the removal of 20thcentury cement and lime-wash layers, remnants of 16th-century painted decorations were discovered on the domed ceiling which would have originally been completely covered with floral paintings with blue, yellow, red, white, and even gold, being the predominant colours,” said an official.
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-Though traces of wall paintings were visible on the wall surfaces, it was expected that the ceiling would be ornamented with the usual incised lime plaster patterns. But the painted ceiling stunned everyone.
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-“It seems much of the painting was lost due to seepage of rainwater and efforts are under way to ensure it never recurs. Portions of the plastered surface have also fallen away due to structural movement in the building,” said an official.
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-National and international experts have been roped in by the AKTC-Havells team to advise on methods to remove later layers and surface coating. “Further analysis of the painted pigments will be undertaken before formulating a conservation strategy for the painted ceiling,” an official said.
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-As World Heritage Week begins, the conservation of Sabz Burj — a two-storeyed domed structure on the roundabout on Mathura and Lodhi roads in Nizamuddin — finally comes to an end. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture began work on the crumbling 1530s heritage building in 2018 in partnership with Archaeological Survey of India with the support of Havells.
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-Ratish Nanda, CEO of Aga Khan Trust, said, “Sabz Burj is a unique monument that boasts glazed tiles on the dome and a tall, elongated drum for the dome to rest on. Tiles matching the physical and chemical properties of the 16th century tiles have now been restored on the dome and the drum. All surviving original tiles were retained, even if they had lost their glaze.”
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-The most challenging work was to preserve the inner circle of the blue dome. The bottom of the dome’s outer circle gives it a unique appeal with the multi-coloured tiles that have now been restored. “Specialist art conservators led by Mumbai-based Anupam Sah painstakingly removed the cement plaster to reveal the painted ceiling — now considered the earliest painted ceiling in any Mughal structure,” said Nanda. The original painting was in pure gold and lapis lazuli, among other natural colours.
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-Craftsmen have restored the missing tiles on the drum of the Sabz Burj, while the missing sandstone lattice screens on the lower part of the structure have been revamped on all the four arched openings of the monument.
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-Sabz Burj sports a variety of intricate incised plaster decorative patterns of floral and geometric designs. The missing plaster patterns were remade on the basis of available evidence on each of the eight facades.
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-Apparently, in the 1980s, ASI removed the tiles from the dome and replaced them with terracotta ones instead of a quartz base used by the 16th century builders. “Owing to the variation in composition and their fixture on the dome with cement, the 1980’s work allowed water retention and caused loss of the painted ceiling. A large portion of the tilework on the drum was lost,” said a conservator. “The Lotus finial atop the dome has green tiles that lend the structure its name of Sabz.”
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-According to the conservators, since the building has no inscription, it is not clear whose mausoleum it is though extant research suggests it is the resting place of a royal who had lived in early Mughal period. The turquoise tiles of the hue found on Sabz Burj have also been used at the nearby Humayun’s Tomb.
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-The 17th-century Shahi Eidgah in Old Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar is often crowded — not with supplicants assembling for prayers, but with children who turn up daily to study in a school at one corner of the paved ground.
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-Functioning under battered asbestos roofs and haphazardly assembled rickety furniture, the Qaumi Senior Secondary School has provided for thousands of students in its 42 years at the Eidgah. The only governmentaided Urdu-medium school in the vicinity, it caters to residents of Qasabpura, Quresh Nagar, Bada Hindu Rao and adjoining areas.
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-The school once functioned from a bustling four-storeyed building, which was razed during the Emergency in 1976. Having weathered all sorts of storms over the years, its existence is now under the threat as the Delhi government is looking to dismantle it and accommodate its students and teachers elsewhere.
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-Mohammad Shareef (13), son of a daily wager, is a regular to the school. He says: “Though it’s not like any other school, they teach us better here.” Shareef lives near the school, and that’s one of the reasons why his father prefers it. According to Ehsan Ali, a teacher at the school, the biggest challenge the children face here is “the attack of the weather”. He says: “During summer, the asbestos turns the classrooms into furnaces. During winter, it’s too cold without the walls.” Nonetheless, Ali has been associated with the school for 18 years.
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-Activist Firoz Ahmed Bakht recently filed a petition in Delhi High Court, demanding that the government construct a new building, “as promised when the government of 1976 had levelled the ground where it once stood”. In his PIL filed through advocate Atyab Siddiqui, Bakht contended that children from the “downtrodden and backward classes have to suffer due to threats of closure, makeshift classrooms, leaking roofs and no proper facilities”.
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-HC is looking into the issue and has asked AAP government and other agencies to explore the possibility of allotting land for the minority school. The matter will come up for hearing again on Tuesday.
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-While the counsel for the government had assured the court of the keenness to resolve the issue, Bakht isn’t so sure. He argues that as per the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, it is now obligatory for the state to provide land and building for neighbourhood schools. “The government is trying to merge the Urdu-medium school by distributing the students to other schools in the adjoining areas,” he says.
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-He alleges that on January 17, the Directorate of Education sent a mail to the school principal, Mohabbat Ali, asking him for details of students and employees “to distribute them to other schools”. Ali says such a plan will be disastrous for students. “We have more than 700 students who have been studying here for years now. If allowed and supported, we can modify the existing place and improve it. To send students of an Urdumedium school to that of any other medium will affect their education,” he says.
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-Siddiqui says the government has maintained that it doesn’t have the land to relocate the school. Even DDA and Delhi Waqf have claimed “sympathies with the students”, but said they have no land. “The only hope for us is HC’s intervention,” Siddiqui says. Bakht believes that if the government shows intent, it can get land from an adjoining park, which “has become a hotbed for nefarious activities and is a favourite haunt of drug-peddlers.”
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-'''Nand Di Hatti has been drawing generations of Delhiites with lip-smacking chhola-bhaturas'''
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-Chhola bhatura -the sight and smell of this sinfully flavour some combination can kill any diet plan. Nand Di Hatti, nestled in the milling lanes of Old Delhi's Sadar Bazaar, is among the best places for a plateful of this spicy delight.This eatery has been drawing generations of Delhiites with its fluffy bhaturas and spiced chickpeas.
-The shop's secondgeneration owner, 71-year-old Om Prakash, says his father, Nand Lal Makkar, initially sold meetha kulcha and chhola for six annas from a pushcart in Sadar Bazaar. He had moved to Delhi along with his family from Rawalpindi during Partition.
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-Nand Lal set up the shop in mid-70s and started serving bhaturas instead because Karol Bagh's Bhasin Bakers which supplied meetha kulcha stopped production -it no longer had wo rk e r s s k i l l e d enough to undertake the baking process. “Red in colour, the meetha kulcha is bigger and three times costlier than the normal one,“ says Gajendra Bhasin, the current owner of Bhasin Bakers. His grandfather sold meetha kulcha in Rawalpindi and after Partition set up shop in Karol Bagh.
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-In the early 90s, Nand Lal's shop was split between his two sons. Om Prakash, the second son, now runs Nand Di Hatti along with his sons, while his nephew, Bharat, 44, sits in the second shop called Nand Bhature Wale Di Hatti.
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-Made in desi ghee without onion, Nand Lal's chhola bhaturas are served with aloo, chillies and mango pickle.Bharat's day starts at 3am when he starts cooking chana in his kitchen, which he shares with his cous h he shares with his cous ins. The chana, which is not soaked as is the nor m, is cooked with spices over low fire for five hours. Slow cooking, Bharat says, ensures that the chickpea's skin stays intact. Anubhav Sapra, who conducts food walks in the city, says his parents maintain that Nand's chhola bhatura has remained consistently delicious over the last 30 years. “Nand mixes sooji with maida while making the bhaturas. This keeps them light on the tummy,“ says Sapra. Bharat says he tried setting up similar shops in West Dehli's Hari Nagar and Ramesh Nagar, but had to fold up within six months. Om Prakash, too, had to wind up his second outlet in Paharganj within a year.
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-Both shops also sell chana masala in packets for patrons who want to replicate the magic. Mahesh Khanna, 70, the second-generation owner of Khanna Stationery Mart in Sadar Bazaar, remembers eating Nand's chhola and meetha kulcha in the early 60s. “They used to sell it for 50 paise. Now it costs Rs 90,“ he says.
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-Food historian Pushpesh Pant says Delhi had a culture of chaats, kulcha and mutter. “Chhola bhatura came in with the refugees during Partition and soon replaced kulcha and mutter from the scene.“
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-Shahpur Jat, an urban village, has a swagger all its own. This stylish retail hub in south Delhi prides itself on its rural atmosphere that only accentuates the cutting edge fashion that it offers to discerning customers
-Colourful and quirky Shah pur Jat is anachronistic --in reverse. Its dirt lanes are boisterous and redo lent of rural India and yet this village in south Delhi has some of the most modern de signer ware on sale. Abutting the ruins of Alauddin Khilji's medieval Siri Fort Shahpur Jat once used to be an affordable production hub for rookie fashion designers. Today, it has transformed into a popular high-fashion retail area that melds the traditional with the modern.
-In the heart of the urban village is Jungi House, whose narrow lanes colourfully announce the presence of niche designer labels such as Liz Paul, Rahul and Anushka, Preeti Mohan, Bhumika Grover, Monika and Nidhi, Akshay Wadhwa and Rajat Suri. The wedding season can be a riot here, with lehangas, anarkalis and saris that have newness and flamboyance woven into them. And if it's a foreign look they are contemplating, there are stores like House of Blondie and Les Parisiennes to fulfil their fantasy. Men too can try out the array of fine wedding apparel here, from formals to innovative Indo-Western numbers whose prices can go up to Rs 50,000.
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-However, it is not only for wedding outfits that the style seekers congregate at this village. Designer Liz Paul says customers come hunting for traditional party wear too. “The best thing about Shahpur Jat is that in a single place you can get everything, and because most of the things on sale are designer pieces, they are unique too,“ she says.
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-An example of unique is the m e n swe a r at UNIT by Rajat Suri. The de signer has bor rowed the me tallic patterns that have been in vogue in women's fashion for some time and incorporated them rather boldly on solemn blazers and Nehru jackets. “Designers here excel in making boring office wear look stylish,“ quips Suri.
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-And then there are the jewellery shops. The bling in the showcases blend the old and the new, the tribal and the avant garde. No wonder, the chand balis and jhumkis, the kundan and the polki here are statements in themselves. What is more, if you want any particular piece customized, the stores are more than willing to ensure the glitter is uniquely yours.
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-“At Preeti Mohan's store you can even get your old watch customized into a beautiful ornament with gems of your liking,“ says Kanika Behl, who regularly shops at Shahpur Jat.“Whether you wear it with a maxi dress or an understated sari, it fits in as an exemplar of style.“ Walk around, and you will also find kitschy de signs incorporated into bedsheets, lampshades, cushion covers and wall hangings.
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-There is a tangible swagger about the place, perhaps because it is popular among budding designers who are just beginning to experiment with their labels. “Earlier designers only had small fabrication centres here,“ says Gau rav Jagtiani, who has had a produc tion unit in the village for seven years now, “but new designers have set up their retail stores here and are expanding the market.“
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-The restaurants in the village have joined in the fun with Bohe mian inspiration. “It is a place that is welcoming of all,“ says Sumit Singh, who opened Cafe Red with three other friends, all bankers. “We wanted a place where working people like us could just lounge and relax over a cup of coffee. Shahpur Jat topped our list because it has a very relaxing ambience.“ Like Cafe Red, there are many other theme restaurants that offer cuisines from India and across the world.
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-“The architecture and the gallies here give you the flavour of rural India,“ points out Jagtiani. “These elements are interpreted by the designers in their work.“ And that is what makes Shahpur Jat a village out of time.
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