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    Anica Mann
    Articles by Anica Mann

    The haveli’s last pulse: Village culture in an expanding city

    Villages work as cultural islands, where older habits are carried on with less dilution than in the colonies around them. (Courtesy: Shekhar Tokas)
    delhi news
    Updated on Nov 2, 2026 02:10 IST

    Delhi Houses: Gates like lace and verandah sit-out

    The gate grill in older Delhi houses would be low enough to see across from the verandah, but would still be closed against rain and thieves.
    delhi news
    Updated on Oct 26, 2026 02:01 IST

    Delhi’s Saptaparni-scented October

    The Saptaparni -- planted in most corners of New Delhi -- is a tough tree, resistant to pollution and rich in medicinal properties.
    delhi news
    Updated on Oct 18, 2026 17:19 IST

    An early morning walk in Chittaranjan Park

    In the morning, the gates in the neighbourhood are left open for newspaper vendors, and a garden chair is set beside its side table. (Courtesy: Ishwar Prasad)
    delhi news
    Updated on Oct 12, 2026 02:14 IST

    European houses of West End Colony

    The two houses on one plot, designed in two distinct but connected styles, reveals the original planning of Shiv Nath Prasad.
    delhi news
    Updated on Oct 5, 2026 02:05 IST

    The disappearing havelis of Delhi

    An old haveli’s heritage value lies in the relationship between its architecture and social life. (Courtesy: Delhi 360:Urban Dehat)
    delhi news
    Updated on Sep 28, 2026 06:26 IST

    The Delhi Deco district of Kamla Nagar

    The buildings, built between 1950 and 1955, combine Art Deco with colonial neo-classicism, indigenous traditions, and haveli architecture: a central courtyard, a street-facing concrete verandah, and climatic shading through windows and concrete grills. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    delhi news
    Updated on Sep 21, 2026 02:20 IST

    The homelessness of student dignity

    A cramped PG locality near Delhi University’s north campus. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    delhi news
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 17:11 IST

    The kothis of historic GT Road

    Entrance to Mahaldar Khan’s garden, which enters Delhi through Tripolia gates.
    delhi news
    Updated on Sep 7, 2026 02:05 IST

    A public library in a scholar’s house

    Professor Madhu Khanna’s residence, with earthy tones, limestone walls, and housing a public library, has the typical architecture of farms built in the 1970s.
    delhi news
    Updated on Aug 30, 2026 17:27 IST

    Narela: From caravan serai to ghost town

    Narela became a market town by mid-1800s, while the grain market, civil hospital, and reformist schools started to set up between 1913 and the 1920s.
    delhi news
    Updated on Aug 24, 2026 03:20 IST

    RWA as historian, Mayfair Garden edition

    A colony around a protected monument inhabits its history differently from one that does not.
    delhi news
    Updated on Aug 17, 2026 02:31 IST

    Delhi: A place of refuge through three neighbourhoods

    Delhi: A place of refuge through three neighbourhoods
    delhi news
    Updated on Aug 10, 2026 02:31 IST

    Tagore Garden: Defending Delhi’s post-Partition concrete fabric

    Tagore Garden was built to house Punjabi refugees after 1947. The buildings tell you that immediately. (Courtesy: Anushka Jain)
    delhi news
    Updated on Aug 3, 2026 02:35 IST

    The paying guest: Delhi’s temporary tenant

    PG facilities in the city are a stark reflection of a system that houses visitors and students for their utility, not their permanence.
    delhi news
    Updated on Jul 27, 2026 02:47 IST

    The ordinary excellence of Old Delhi houses

    93-year-old man in Sita Ram Bazaar keeps photograph of a group portrait of a poetry club from 1911, called Bazm-e-Shaida. (Courtesy: Nancy Sardana)
    others
    Updated on Jul 19, 2026 17:17 IST

    The history of Delhi doors

    The history of Delhi doors
    delhi news
    Updated on Jul 13, 2026 02:31 IST

    Withdrawing from drawing rooms

    Indira Gandhi’s drawing room in the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum.
    delhi news
    Updated on Jul 7, 2026 03:45 IST

    The cultural address of Delhi

    The building in Sujan Singh Park was built by Sir Sobha Singh on an urgent basis during WW2 II to house British military and civilian officers. (Courtesy: Aarohi Mehra)
    delhi news
    Updated on Jun 28, 2026 22:20 IST

    The sealed houses of Delhi

    Older houses reflected the conditions of their streets and were a signature for how Delhi’s residents understood the city.
    delhi news
    Updated on Jun 21, 2026 22:22 IST

    An artist’s Delhi house and other love stories

    The house, much like its kitchen, has been largely left alone. It lives in its original identity, little eroded by the couple, mostly its own person.
    delhi news
    Updated on Jun 15, 2026 01:41 IST

    The house that held Devli together

    Devli’s first pucca house stood near the village chaupal. (Courtesy: Puneet Singh Singhal)
    delhi news
    Updated on Jun 8, 2026 01:46 IST

    Delhi Houses: The kothis of Model Town modernism

    With longer corridors, use of durable materials, and generous light and ventilation, the 1970s houses were not designed to impress but to last.
    delhi news
    Updated on May 31, 2026 17:56 IST

    Once upon a summer in a Delhi house

    Its the time when Delhi houses begin to change into cotton curtains, summer upholstery, open windows, and blooming amaltas.
    delhi news
    Updated on May 25, 2026 02:36 IST

    The Zaildars of Madanpur Khadar in Delhi

    The 200-year-old multi-storey haveli. (Courtesy: Aarohi Mehra)
    delhi news
    Updated on May 18, 2026 02:12 IST

    The Maharani Bagh house in Delhi that still feels like it was built yesterday

    The Maharani Bagh house with a family crest
    delhi news
    Updated on May 11, 2026 16:51 IST

    Cartoon network weekends and DDA living: A Delhi childhood

    Cartoon network weekends and DDA living: A Delhi childhood
    delhi news
    Updated on May 4, 2026 03:34 IST

    The story of Delhi’s DDA vision

    Most people who live in DDA apartments today also maintain the same structure with little renovation.
    delhi news
    Updated on May 3, 2026 23:04 IST

    Rain garden to rooftop farm: Inside the Delhi house of man who built AIIMS

    In east Delhi, a home that turns sustainability into a way of life
    delhi news
    Updated on Apr 27, 2026 01:40 IST

    Chandigarh-inspired Delhi modernism, ‘Garden City’ concepts in Casa Pia bungalow

    In a way, Indur Mirchandani integrated “Garden City” concepts with social infrastructure and recessed facades to create shadow and cool indoor spaces.
    delhi news
    Updated on Apr 20, 2026 01:09 IST
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