Rana Safvi

Explore iftar feasts in Old Delhi's vibrant bylanes.

'Shahjahanabad' is rana safvi's latest book on Delhi's glorious history. She tells the story of how the Shahjahanabad of the past grew to become what we call Old Delhi today.

Historian and author rana safvi, talks to TOI Books about her love for history and expresses the need to preserve the “pluralistic India” that she grew up in.

'Desi Delicacies' is a new anthology of food writing which aims at bringing recipes and stories from the Muslim South Asia to readers across the world.

Historian-author rana safvi has been conferred an award instituted in memory of Yamin Hazarika, the first woman from the Northeast to join the central police service. Safvi, who has published several books on culture, history, and monuments of India, was chosen for her "contribution to the syncretic culture of India".

A recent session at the Times Litfest 2021 centered around one of the most relevant topics of today’s day and age, “Why men should cook”. Read more details here.

"I have been trained in the craft of writing, for academics, fairly impenetrable prose weighed down by footnotes," said Devika Rangachari, during the session, 'From Mauryas to Mughals', on the first day of the Times Litfest.

A nearly 1.4-km stretch of Chandni Chowk, from the Red Fort area to Fatehpuri Masjid, has been made a non-motorised vehicle zone from 9 AM to 9 PM as part of a holistic initiative by the Shahjehanabad Redevelopment Corporation (SRDC).

In a recent conversation with TOI Books, Safvi talked in detail about her latest book, the role of monuments in history, and more.

Lithographs of the 1840s show how Delhi’s iconic monuments looked like a decade before the Mughal empire ended and how they were lost or eroded with time

After eight months, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has finally completed the conservation and restoration work of the pillared red sandstone cupola, popularly known as “Smith’s Folly”, at the world heritage site Qutub Minar. Though the cupola seemingly looks like the minar, it is separated from the latter by a gap of nearly 200 years.

What Is Called Old Delhi Now Had Everything A City Needed

When author and historian rana safvi and Sanskrit and Persian scholar Sam Dalrymple’s social media posts about Mughal-era Hindu frescoes in temples in Delhi being treated without respect to their historical import gained traction, ironically the attention wasn’t on these precious works of art but the fact that people didn’t know the city had temples from those times. “It’s true, certain Mughals did destroy temples.