Modern-day Delhi has been the seat of political power for successive empires. It is popularly known to be made up of seven cities that served as capitals from 3000 BC to 17th century AD. Over the years it has evolved into a city of monuments. Travelling on Delhi’s roads everyday could make one blind to ruins that dot its landscape, relics of a past capable of transporting one to a reality vastly different from the one that surrounds it now. Here we collate these interesting bits from the past that have slipped into the crevices of time.
Rupinder Sharma is a Delhi-based photojournalist