Charu Soni

Phool Walon ki Sair is an annual festival symbolising communal harmony and unity, in which people from Hindu and Muslim communities together offer a flower chadar at the Dargah of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki and a flower pankha at the Yogmaya Temple. The event dates back to the Mughal period. 

Flagship schemes here debut with similar bravado – deadlines are declared, targets set, outcomes counted in ledgers – while the machinery needed to deliver them remains inadequate. The applause arrives on schedule; the implementation does not.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was recently in the thick of a controversy following a Delhi court order directing him and other journalists to not go ahead with publishing stories against the Adani Group perceived by many to be the favourite of the Narendra Modi government.