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Blogs by Dr. Umesh Choudhry
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Barh mohalla, a locality closest to our house. So naturally we knew it the most or at times knew it at its best. My father's best friend...
Obviously a lot has happened since the last blog. Faridabad has been devastated with Carona virus pandemic. There are stories of...
As it was bound to happen. History buffs have been looking back all the way to Mahabharat and were bound to find the name Tilprastha or...
For over 60 years, Much like many other towns and cities in the country, Faridabad has also celebrated Dushehra. In a procession or yatra...
Years and decades later, some of us now realize how important this talaab (pond) was for city's ecology, its water table. How it...
Waited for such a long to pen down an appropriate poem that should be a fitting tribute to the claim to fame of Faridabad Shahr, its...
Mehndi's is etched in the history of India from time immemorial. Every happy occasion typically has Mehndi ritual for women and men (in...
I guess we were in a sense the generation where finer things in life started to take roots. Let me explain !!. North India, if not all of...
Why does anyone sitting thousands of miles away, an accomplished specialist doctor want to write anything about a town that he has not...
Growing up in a very large, joint family and then a large extended family is in of itself quite an experience. Those of us who grew up in...
Two other stalwarts of Old Faridabad and of course my father's best friend. Dr. Lakshmi Datt Sharma. and his father Pandit Krishan Datt...
As we walked up the street from what was the Old Subzi Mandi crossing, We hit the heart and soul of Old Faridabad of those days. On both...
My mental Map of my little city should really start at that heady slope that descended from mathura road down on railway road past Ojha...
A little town barely a few thousand families. There were just a handful families of eminence in the Shahr. Although I would only come to...
Continued searches out of curiosity and i found some very interesting maps. A map that really intrigued me was of 1800s that mentioned...
When I started to think about writing about Old Faridabad, I thought of Faridabad when I was a child. As i started to talk to people and...
So many years later, some things may gel into each other and people somewhat older than I will have things to add or correct. I would...
I have often thought about my oldest memory of my hometown. It's actually quite vivid as the occasion was quite momentous. I was sitting...
मेरे शहर की गलियाँ चलने निकलने में तो कभी तंग नज़र आती थी मगर ख्यालों में बड़ी खुली प्यारी नज़र आती मेरे शहर की गलियाँ उनके तो नाम भी इतने...