Abu Sufiyan from Old Delhi’s Shahjahanabad always offers a clever twist to this query, saying, “Jise nihar ke khayi jaaye wo nihari aur jise nahar mooh khayi jaye wo nahari” (That which is ...

At the same time, the concept of reserved spaces for women is not new in Delhi. It is rooted in the city’s history. The walled city of Shahjahanabad, where most Muslim women observed the purdah, had ...