 This blood-stained gate in Delhi called the Kuni Darvaza symbolizes the bloody rites of passage. The year was 1857. An 82-year-old Mughal, Bahadur Shah Zafar, had become the rallying point for the rebellious soldiers who had launched the First War of Delhi lamented its lost glory and the British relocated the capital of Behrar to Calcutta. However, a strain of the Mughal lineage survived. While the successor to the throne Mirza Fakru was among the dead, one of his sons, Mirza Farkunda Jamal, was hidden away by maidservant. Fakisa Begum's grandfather, then just five years old, lived to tell the tales of his lineage to his daughter and granddaughter. This is our city. Our ancestors, they were the founder of the city. Today, this retired government servant lives in an upper middle-class locality of New Delhi, the city of tools, the city of gins. The monuments were the life of Delhi. They were mainly Muslims of dead kings or commanders. They were palaces and they were forts. They were the three monuments in which the, particularly the Muslims, went in for. Traces of a lifestyle that were spawned by the Mughals of the Red Fort add to the romantic overhang of Delhi. These pigeons are no ordinary birds. They have been trained in the sport of kabootarbazi. Walking into the dingy world city of old Delhi is akin to opening a chapter of this history. The links with the Shah Jahanabad of the Mughals survived in many nooks and corners. In what is today a busy bazaar lived Mirza Ghalib, arguably the greatest of all Urdu poets. This decrepit structure once resounded with Ghalib's poetry. Ghalib's poetry was adopted by the courtesan before the court finally came to acknowledge his greatness. Sensuous voices popularized his poetry in the mansions of the rich, before they woke up to the great poet. George V, King Emperor, arrived at the royal day of war. Hundreds of local princes who owed allegiance to the emperor congregated with their own displays of ostentation and power to submit before the British monarch. And it was at the Delhi Darbar that King George V decreed that a new city was to be built around the old Delhi, which would become the capital of the Raj.