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Of a town called Dilli

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

WALLED CITY: A painting by Soumen Dutta

NEW DELHI: The historic perspective and architectural splendour of Delhi is what makes the city stand out among all the rest -- not only in India but also Asia. Endowed with some of the most beautiful buildings and monuments, Delhi has about it a real charm that endears it to all those who happen to visit it as also those who reside in it.

What's more, in the Walled City of Delhi every nook and cranny, every lane and by-lane, every building and park has a story to tell. So rich is the Capital's history that even outside this Old Delhi one finds myriad monuments and ruins that date back to the pre-Christ era. No wonder, the forthcoming exhibition of Soumen Dutta and his students, which starts at India Habitat Centre on Thursday, will charm every visitor since it brings forth in "pen and ink and water colour" sights that people get to see everyday but still cannot get enough of.

The two-day exhibition, titled "A Journey Through Delhi", shows Delhi up as what it is: "a wonderful place". It would have many landmarks spread across the city speaking volumes about its history. As Delhi has seen the rise and fall of many empires right from the times of Mohammad Ghauri to the end of the British Raj, the life of the people and the surroundings of the Capital city have also changed over the centuries.

Most of Delhi's historic monuments were either built by a ruler or in memory of a ruler at some point of time in history and the exhibition captures most of the important tombs in Delhi. Besides the Humayun's Tomb Complex and the Lodhi Gardens, it also brings on canvas and paper the historic Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Purana Quila, Qutub Minar and Chandni Chowk.

To take the art-lovers on this "memorable journey" across Delhi, says Soumen Dutta, the artists have used different mediums such as pen and ink, oil on canvas, dry pastels, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media.

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