City Life – Raving 'n' Ranting in Gay Delhi

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Friday night in an über-fashionable club. [the author, wishing to remain anonymous, describes himself as “an amateur clubber of some experience”; picture for representational…

Guest Column – From Djinns to Pandavas

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City Sighting – Arundhati Roy, Around Town

There goes the jazz tune. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi; the above picture, taken in the South Extenson market, is by Pablo Bartholomew] Is it true that Arundhati Roy live in a barsati in Green Park? One late…

Pssss of the Town – Bird Scare, LSD hangover

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City Landmark – Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed, Old Delhi

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. In the shrine of Delhi’s naked sufi. [Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] The sufi shrine of Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed in Old Delhi,…

City Neighbourhood – Gole Market

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Travel – Mapping the Muslim Delhi

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City Culture – Notes from Khushwant Singh’s Drawing Room, Sujan Singh Park

In the company of Delhi’s living landmark. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] There are two kinds of Delhiwallas. Those who have been to Khushwant Singh’s living room and those who have not. The Delhi Walla has been to…

City Landmark – Razia Sultan’s Tomb, Near Turkman Gate

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“There’s No Exclusive Gay Pub in Delhi But…” – Interview with a Gay Blogger

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Conversations with a man who runs a blog on the city’s gay life. [Interview and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi; the picture has no…