When journalists extended a helping hand to preserve history

Photographs of Russian revolutionaries and communist memorabilia covered with layers of dust adorn the walls of the conference hall in CPI headquarters

Extending a helping hand

The Delhi office of the Communist Party of India (CPI) — one of the first national parties to move out of the Lutyens area — remains the most spacious and unpretentious. 

Photographs of Russian revolutionaries and communist memorabilia covered with layers of dust adorn the walls of its conference hall. On Tuesday, after a press conference addressed by CPI chief S Sudhakar Reddy, some journalists offered to help with the clean-up of the office and preservation of the memorabilia since some of it was several decades old and had tremendous historical value. The party headquarters also