Arya is the Founder-editor of PublicTunes Media and the Chief Editor of Insaniyat Magazine. PublicTunes Media is an open resource for the history, arts, and culture of India, and also the network which produces Insaniyat Magazine. Arya has had a long stint in the field of Arts and Humanities, as he has served as an Art Director for various international festivals. Arya specializes in the history and culture of Delhi, and that is reflected in his work which follows a line of the eccentric Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb Culture. Arya has also transcended into different fields by venturing into travel writing, as his first travel-based account about a journey across India in only 540Rs, is all set to release later this year. A unique aspect of Arya is that he carves his work through oral accounts and stories of people living on the edge, while taking influence from the environment and a socio-cultural atmosphere which also inspires him to explore new themes and auras of history. History, heritage, art, people, culture, food, music, and travel is what Arya feeds on for his curiosity as a history buff.
As the Delhi summer was welcoming us, and Insaniyat Magazine’s release date was just around the corner; my (Arya) foolish self had forgotten to get a few last shots for an interview-based article that was ready to be published in the magazine. So Tanya and I set out to get some of these last pictures…
Delhi-6 is designed in a pattern where there are different settlements for different professions. The washermen, entertainers, hakims, have their own separate area. During our little exploration to get the best photograph, we decided to go and visit the area inhabitated by the Bawarchis of purani dilli. As we entered these lanes, we were treated…
With Khan market on one side and the Safdar Jang tomb on the other, the Lodi Garden is a 90-acre garden filled with a series of Sayyid, Lodi, and Mughal monuments. Today, the garden is a part of an area where the Delhi high society resides, but originally this place was part of a village…
The weather in Delhi is very harsh, all through the year, but there are days during these harsh weather spells when the wind is soothing and the sun is just perfect, and one would want to laze around in open gardens with a cup of tea or coffee as per preference. It is because of…
While many might have driven past it on numerous occasions, very few know about its existence. At the intersection of Delhi’s busiest routes, Mathura Road and Lodi Road, stands a monument at the roundabout, with the Humayun’s tomb and Sunder Nursery on one side, the tomb of Rahim on one, the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin…
of all the things used to describe delhi/dilli/दिल्ली, I’d call it — the crossbred offspring of the numerous rulers from the Sultanate, Mughals, the Angrez Sahibs and placid poetry of Mir and Ghalib. a candle-like queen that never sleeps. * her hand opens and closes and opens and closes, to give and to hold if…
In the southern nook of Delhi, now transformed into an urban hub with a myriad of boutiques, coffee shops, and restaurants, is the first city of Delhi; Mehrauli. A walk through the streets of Mehrauli takes one through the expanse of architecture developed by the Sultanate and especially the Mamluk Turks who were given this…
In the list of 7 cities of Delhi, this city does find its place, as its ruins have not survived the ravages of time, unlike the others. While we have extensive works available on the first city of Delhi, Mehrauli (Qutub Delhi), we have to depend on textual sources and traditions in order to reconstruct…
Momin Khan Momin; often regarded as one of the greats of Urdu poetry and a contemporary of Ghalib was born in 1801 at Delhi. Originally from Kashmir, he belonged to a family of physicians in Unani medicine. Momin’s access to the Mughal court came through his grandfather and father; Hakim Nadir Khan and Hakim Ghulam…
The creation of the Mughal empire was more than a political transition, rather it was the start of an era that changed the nature of warfare in South Asia. The Mughal empire laid its claims in present-day Indian territory in 1526, when the Battle of Panipat took place between the Timurid, Zahiruddin Babur, and the…
