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Each monument of Delhi has a story to tell: Historian Rana Safvi

At Sahitya Aaj Tak's English session on forgotten histories, history keepers Saba Dewan and Rana Safvi spoke to Sanghamitra Chakraborty about their passion and love for history.

During the session, historian Rana Safvi talked about her work on Delhi monuments and said that each monument has a story to tell.

"A city like Delhi, which has a continuous history of over a thousand years, you've had so many dynasties here...so many rulers. It's just full of monuments," Rana Safvi said.

While Delhi-based documentary filmmaker Saba Dewan talked about the history of tawaifs in India and how they were stigmatised.

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