Malvika singh biography of mahatma
Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi by Malvika Singh ......
'Delhi, the perpetual city, has a soul unlike Mumbai'
Hindustan Times | BySaudamini Jain
Dec 07, PM IST
Delhi is full of interesting stories and no one knows it better than Malvika Singh, the grand old lady of Delhi's elite club.
Her new book is as much about her life as it is about her 'perpetual' city Delhi.
Malvika singh biography of mahatma
We bring you a bit of both.
Delhi is full of interesting stories. And Malvika ‘Mala’ Singh, publisher of the monthly in-depth magazine, Seminar, and the grand old lady of the city’s elite club, knows them all.
In the s, when she was about 12 years old, her family moved from Bombay to Delhi. Her parents were journalists Raj and Romesh Thapar (they started Seminar in after the Communist Party began using Crossroads, the tabloid they then edited, as a mouthpiece).
Her aunt is historian Romila Thapar. At Modern School, Barakhamba Road, she met – and later married – Tejbir Singh, the grandon of Sir Sobha Singh (the legendary builder of New Delhi who was also call