A nearly two-mile-long lake that once stretched across north Delhi has resurfaced; not on the ground, but on old maps. Current satellite imagery indicates that most of the area has now been built upon ...
From a “Sketch of Environs” map of Delhi dating to 1807—showing natural stormwater channels and the prominent ‘gates’ at the time—to a map of Shahjahanabad from 1850, when the Chandni Chowk stretch ...