Hindustan Times
Outside is the usual Sadar Bazar chaos, and heat. Enter the green coloured gate and you step into calmness, and coolness. Amidst hundreds of tombs, clustered tightly on a rolling landscape, lays a mosque, a madrassa and the sufi shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Baqi Billah. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, August 3, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Filed under Musings · Tagged dargah, Hazrat Billah, shrine of Hazrat Khwaja Baqi Billah, sufi shrine of Hazrat Khawaj
What if Nobel laureate Mr. VS Naipaul goes to Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s dargah?
What would Mr. Naipaul, ever the pessimist, ever the cynic, observe in the famous south Delhi shrine? Going by his past, if he goes on to write a book, Mr. Naipaul would surely use the most elegant language to describe the filth, the stench, the beggars, the unruly crowd, the shouting, the shoving and the general hullaballoo. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged dargah, hajiri, sexist discrimination in a dargah, sufi ishq, sufism. intolerence, woman sufi, women
