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मोहब्बत छूटती नहीं दिल्ली से मेरी
प्यार सच में अंधा ही होता है
कोई तर्क नहीं ढूंढता
दूर रहके भी जोड़े रखता है मुझे ख़ुद से

~ प्रेरक
SWIPE LEFT >>> RIGHT FOR SOME SCINTLILLATING AERIAL IMAGES OF OUR CITY.
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A Mumbaikar's Ode to Delhi...today we end the Sheher-o-Shayari series on #Dilli, a poetic retelling of Delhi's 8 cities, which was curates by our guest & DBFwalla, Prerak Vyas. A writer, creative artist & co-founder of "Parwaz," one of the most prolific collective of poetry enthusiasts and budding poets of India, Prerak has been sharing his own feelings and thoughts on how he has seen, felt, experienced and imagined Delhi.
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A Mumbaikar who loves Delhi madly, @prerakvyas6 puts down one last ode to the city, which as he says, is his 'mehbooba'!
His poems written over a period of almost a decade and a half of frequent work-related visits to our city we have presented to you over the last 8 days...hope you enjoyed it as much as we did while working on this!
Do leave your feedback & share with us what else you wish to see on our feed!
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"मुक़द्दर में लिखा है इस शहर के टूटना दोस्त
सो टूट रहा है फिर से
फिर बनेगा... दिल्ली है...यूंही टूटती बनती रही है सदियों से...
यूंही टूटती बनती रहेगी... "

~ प्रेरक

New Delhi, the 8th and recent-most city laid out by the English, work on which began almost 110 years back, has been pretty much the way the Brits envisioned it, untill now! But that's a different story, and though today our guest curator @prerakvyas6 in his penultimate poetry-post, almost pens down a lament on how the New Delhi we have known for last 100 yrs is changing, rapidly, but today we simply celebrate the beauty of a simple era, when New Delhi was ours and the "India Gate-Rajpath-Janpath" area was where Dilliwallas congregated in largest numbers in Delhi.
Eager to leave behind the Mughal legacy in architecture, the English-India Govt, back in 1911, planned to incorporate many new elements to differentiate their new capital from any of the erstwhile capital cities of Delhi/India.
A central avenue comprising a tree-lined road running East-West in axis, water-pools on both sides of this road, it was called the Kingsway, now Rajpath, was planned. The two ends of this avenue, were marked by two spectacular architectural delights; boasting on the west-end atop the Raisina Hill, the biggest residential palace of that time in the world and the secretariat bldgs, where the Viceroy lived and his team governed/ruled india on behalf of the English Govt. On the east-end of the central axis road was the War Memorial, which we today know as India Gate. The rest of the city stretched in the north side from Connaught Place & New Delhi Railway station and on the southern end the city limits were till the Lodhi Colony & Willingdon Airport (now Safdarjang Airport).
Using a connected grid of hexagonal roundabouts the rest of the city came up within these boundaries, so to say. And that's how it has been, till now!
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कभी बादशाहों की ठाठ थी यहाँ
अब मुफ़लिसी की भीड़ है
ग़ालिब और दाग़ सी ज़ुबान बोलता था ये कभी
अब बस शोर है

~ प्रेरक

Shahjahanabad, the Mughal imperial capital, built by, who else, but Shahjahan, is a fav of us Dilliwallas...after all what is Old Delhi if not synonymous for Shopping, Food, Architecture and the Maddening Crowds!!
This 7th city of #Dilli, laid out along the river Yamuna, was completed in mid 17th Century and has borne the brunt of many a invasion, both from foreign powers like Persia & Afghanistan as well as within India, by the Sikhs, Marathas, Jats, British East India Company and the carnage of partition in 1947. And each invasion and upheaval has made it lose lots, yet made our city gain in some small measure!
Swipe L>>>R to read how our guest curator @prerakvyas6 decodes the hustle-bustle of modern-day "Purani Dilli or Dilli-6" as we popularly call Shahjahanabad!
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#delhi #olddelhi #delhi6 #jamamasjid #chandnichowk #redfort #delhibyfoot #indiabyfoot #poetry #shayari #prerakvyas6

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एक खुरदुरे से चेहरे वाले पत्थर ने कहा...

"हमसे पुछो सा'ब कहानी इस शहर की
तुम जिसे पुराना कहते हो न...ये तो बहुत नया है
शहरों पर शहर बने हैं यहाँ सा'ब...
बचा पर एक भी नहीं है "
~ प्रेरक

The site of the 6th medieval capital city of Delhi, "Dinpanah", built by the 2nd Mughal Humayun, again like Ferozabad (which we featured ystrdy), was right next to the River Yamuna.
Started by Humayun in early 16th C and then taken over & finished by the Sur Dynasty who ruled northern India for almost 16 yrs from here, this citadel-fort palace is popular today as "Old Fort" (Purana Quilla), thanks to the British administrators who named it thus.
The citadel, complete with its own moat had been almost in ruins, except for two well-preserved (thankfully!!!) monuments; the most beautiful 'Quila-e-Kohna Mosque', which perhaps boasts the most exquisite stone-inlay work in Delhi and the library/personal room of the emperors, the two-storey structure 'Sher Mandal'.
Interestingly the Purana Quilla site is REALLY OLD! Excavations have revealed a continuous set of brickwork & pottery from a period starting 3000 yrs back! Seems the Brits prophetically got this name for the fort right!
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Swipe L>R to read our guest curator @prerakvyas6 hold forth on the many hues of Old Fort, the citadel-fort palace of the 6th city of #Dilli.
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#delhi #puranaquila #puranaquilla #oldfort #delhibyfoot #indiabyfoot #poetry #shayari #prerakvyas6

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बड़ा अजीब है ये शहर 'कोटला फ़िरोज़शाह'

दुआएं महकती है हर कोने से.....

सच में अजीब है ये शहर 'कोटला'

वीरान हो गया है न जाने कितनी सदियों से

पर अंदर आपके, एक ही मुलाक़ात में घर बना लेता है...

~ प्रेरक

Time has been unkind to the final of the Tughlaq capital cities of Delhi, 'Ferozabad'; and like the 4th city on which our Guest Curator @prerakvyas6 shared his poem yesterday, Delhi's 5th city, Ferozabad, too has lost most of its landmarks...Only the Sultan's citadel or fort-palace now remains.

Historians call this 'Kot'(a small fort) Ferozshah Kotla, a name which #delhiwallas associate more with the famous cricket stadium next door that was named so for this obscure fort-citadel of our city!

But I feel what Delhites miss visiting, this citadel is perhaps the most remarkable & intriguing of all the medieval Sultanate cities of Delhi; not just for tales from the 14th C when it was built by the 3rd Tughlaq, Sultan Ferozeshah, but more for what the city's fort-citadel hides in plain sight, right in the middle of a bustling city today!
Afterall it is said, that the Kotla is the abode of Jinns! And it is to these Jinns, supernatural creatures or other-worldly spirits, who are believed to grant the wishes of the devout, that people flock to each Thursday of the week!
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Swipe L>R to read and see what happens today, every Thursday at the Kotla Ferozshah as you absorb the soul-stirring poetry of our guest curator in this poetry series on the 8 historic cities of Delhi.
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#delhi #ferozshahkotla #ferozshahkotlafort #delhibyfoot #indiabyfoot #poetry #shayari #hindipoems by #prerakvyas6

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एक शहर था यहाँ कभी
अब कुछ इक्का-दुक्का खंडहर ही बचे हैं
एक शहर था यहाँ कभी 'जहाँपनाह' नाम का
आज हर आने जाने वाले से अपनी हयात की पनाह मांग रहा है
~ प्रेरक

Today our guest curator @prerakvyas6
pens down his feelings when he walked around what once was the 4th medieval city of #Delhi, #Jahanpanah!
Built by the 2nd of the Tughlaq Dynasty sultans, Jahanpanah was spread out in what are the areas of Saket, Malviya Nagar, IIT-D campus, etc. Serving as the seat of power for Sultan Mohammad Bin Tughlaq, who earned the dubious title of the Eccentric Sultan, this perhaps is a medieval Delhi city with the least numbers of preserved heritage sites that we can see today!
Hope you are enjoying these 'poetic' city journeys... Do leave your comments and tell us how you like them!
Pic Credit :1- @prashanthvishwanathan
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वो सूफ़ी के श्राप अब तक बसता है यहाँ...

इसलिए तुम जिन पलों को यहाँ संग अपने लाये हो

उन्हें बचा कर वापस ले जाना

के यहाँ रहें तो ये भी मेरी ही तरह उजड़ जायेंगे

~ प्रेरक

@prerakvyas6 describes in his beautiful words the feeling that these sentinels of history evoke… the tales that echo from these walls of kings and dynasties of yore and a saint..
The third city of Delhi #Tughlaqabad was the dream project of a mighty ruler built in just four years the city was soon abandoned.. was it a saint’s curse? Or a son’s guilt? We may never know… but the city lies deserted as if forsaken by time itself..

#delhi #tughalakabad #delhibyfoot #indiabyfoot #poetry #shayari #prerakvyas6

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वक़्त के मुसव्वर ने तस्वीर की शुरुआत तो शानदार की थी
मगर बीच ही में ईज़ल से उतार के कहीं किसी कोने में रख दी
और सब अधूरा ही रह गया
~ प्रेरक

Another beautiful piece of poetry for a beautiful city by our guest curator @prerakvyas6
The second city of Delhi #siri !

In the early 14th century, the second Khalji ruler, Alauddin, founded the city of Siri on the plains where his armies had defeated the Mongols in battle.
Due west, outside the walls of the Siri, he built a large hauz (tank), that was known as Hauz-e-Alai, to supply water to the new city. But soon after, Alauddin’s reign ended and the Hauz fell into desrepair.
Merely four decades later, Firoz Shah Tughlaq, of the subsequent Tughlaq dynasty restored the abandoned hauz which then came to be called the Hauz-Khas (royal tank). At the same time Firoz Shah also built the Madrasa-e-Firoz Shahi or ‘College of Firoz Shah’, and his own tomb at a focal point in the complex.

#delhi #siri #hauzkhas #delhibyfoot #indiabyfoot #poetry #shayari #prerakvyas6

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Dilli sheher aur shayari...

सड़कें और गलियाँ यहाँ की बातें करती हैं
मक़बरे और महल भी बोलते हैं
खामोश पड़ी कब्रें भी और
दीवारों और पानी पर जमी काई भी
और ज़मीन पर उगा घांस भी बोलता है यहाँ

बस सुनने की समझ चाहिए
अगर हो, तो सब सुनाई पड़ता है।
~प्रेरक व्यास

Our account has been taken over by shayar sahab @prerakvyas6 !!
For the first post he eulogizes the first city of Delhi... MEHRAULI!

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