GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Living a Happy India life in South Delhi.[Pictures and text by Mayank Austen Soofi]My address has changed. I'm now the Shah of the Jahan, the king of the world. I've moved from the wrong side of the Yamuna to the right side. From Lower East Side to the heart of upper crust Delhi. Such a long journey: from Anand Vihar to Defence Colony.Def Col. The culmination of my dreams. So many times have I wistfully glanced at it from my Blueline window as the 543 would rumble down the smoggy Ring Road. Would the day ever come when I would live here? Nahi, how could

Yanks play their politics in the Indian capital. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] On his overseas trip to Paris, Berlin, London, Baghdad and Kabul in July, 2008, Barack Obama didn't find time to visit Delhi. Is he aware that the route to the January 20th inauguration day is passing through Delhi's Khan Market bylane? On a recent Saturday morning, at 11 am, about a dozen volunteers of Democrats Abroad-India, the overseas branch of the Democrat party in India, donned Obama tees, Obama badges, donkey hats and marched up and down in pairs at Khan Market, Delhi's first-world bubble, to catch anybody who looked like an American. The purpose was to register US citizens in the Capital so that they could vote

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.The blog's intentions are good, the execution clumsy.[Text by Bina Shah; Picture by Muhammad Zaheer Mohsin]Pakistan's eminent novelist Bina Shah reviews Pakistan Paindabad, the sister-site of The Delhi Walla.Ms Shah writes:Mayank Austen Soofi seems to have no editorial agenda, commissioning articles informally and writing features of varying length, style, and quality. The result is hit or miss: hit when Soofi plays the role of the wide-eyed wanderer, moving through Lahore markets or Karachi streets with hunger to find out about life on the “other side”. He misses when trying his hand at more sophisticated writing: some of his satires fall flat, others are cringe-worthy, and