The walk was organized by Tales of City in collaboration with Niyogi Books, publisher of Delhi Heritage — Top 10 Baolis by Vikramjit Singh Rooprai, who led the walk. Tales of City is a travel and heritage enterprise that organizes curated walks across major Indian cities, offering a blend of history, art, tradition and interactions to present the true essence of a city to its people.
Rooprai is an ex-software engineer by profession and a heritage activist and educator by choice. His passion for his new-found career is palpable. While he devotes much of his time to exploring and writing on facets of Delhi’s heritage, he is involved with educational institutions through his organization, Heritageshaala, which sets up heritage labs in schools across India to develop novel methods of pedagogy through the use of history. “I train teachers on how to use history to teach subjects like science. I’d call it applied education,” he explains.