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'Delhi, the perpetual city, has a soul unlike Mumbai'
Hindustan Times | BySaudamini Jain
Dec 07, 2013 06:46 PM IST
Delhi is full of interesting stories and no one knows it better than Malvika Singh, the grand old lady of Delhi's elite club.Malvika singh biography samples
Her new book is as much about her life as it is about her 'perpetual' city Delhi. We bring you a bit of both.
Delhi is full of interesting stories. And Malvika ‘Mala’ Singh, publisher of the monthly in-depth magazine, Seminar, and the grand old lady of the city’s elite club, knows them all.
In the 1950s, when she was about 12 years old, her family moved from Bombay to Delhi.
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Her parents were journalists Raj and Romesh Thapar (they started Seminar in 1959 after the Communist Party began using Crossroads, the tabloid they then edited, as a mouthpiece). Her aunt is historian Romila Thapar. At Modern School, Barakhamba Road, she met – and later married – Tejbir Singh, the grandon of Sir Sobha Singh (the legendary builder of New Del