Upcoming star and Captain of the victorious India under 19 team, Unmukt Chand must realise that playing for the state and country is the ultimate for any sportsman but there is something one owes to one’s college too. Read more

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Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Filed under Capital Closeup, New Delhi, india · Tagged Capital Closeup, cricket, delhi university, Hindustan Times, india, Indian cricketers, Pankaj Vohra, St Stephen’s College, Unmukt Chand
There are very few people who leave their mark on our lives. There are fewer who leave their imprint on history. Read more

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Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Filed under New Delhi · Tagged Capital Closeup, Congress, delhi university, Dr SS Rathi, DU, Janata Party, National Forum of Teachers, Nigambodh Ghat, Pankaj Vohra, Rajiv Gandhi, Rajya Sabha
The announcement by the Delhi Mayor renaming the main road, which runs through Chandni Chowk as the Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Marg, is blasphemous. Read more

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Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Filed under New Delhi · Tagged Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Capital Closeup, Chandni Chowk, Chippiwara, Connaught Place, Curzon Road, Dariba, Delhi, Delhi Mayor, delhi university, Delhiites, Ferozeshah Kotla ground, hindustantimes, Irwin Hospital, Irwin Road, Jamila Millia Islamia, Kapil Sibal, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Katra Neel, LNJP Hospital, Manmohan Singh, Rajiv Chowk, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Vijay Goel, Willingdon hospital
It was a Sunday (January 30) with a difference. The venue was the third floor terrace of the India International Centre and the occasion was very significant as it was emotional. It was a get together of the newly formed exclusive club of the Delhi University Student leaders of the seventies. Read more

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Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Filed under Activism, New Delhi · Tagged ABVP, Arun jaitley, BJP, Congress, delhi university, DUSU, India International Centre, Left, NSUI, Politics, SFI, Sudhir Goyal, SYS
I was reading my colleague Sujata Anandan’s blog on her experience with the Gandhis when memories of my first meeting with Indira Gandhi came back to me in its totality.
It was somewhere at the end of 1975 or beginning of 1976 when Prof. V.P.Dutt, former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University gathered a group of students, teachers and employees from the Campus to meet the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Read more

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