Now Delhi Isn't Far.

Of Capitals, Histories, and Daily lives.

The saying ‘Now Delhi isn’t far,’¹ finds its origins in the life of a revered 13th-century Sufi saint, Nizamuddin.

In those days, the ruler of Delhi was a Sultan named Tughlaq who had an ongoing conflict with the saint. At one time, a particular bee in his bonnet was a view that the Sufi saint was luring workers away from his project to build a step wall…