The Delhi Walla Books – Portraits is Published The Delhi Walla books by The Delhi Walla - June 6, 2011June 7, 201118 The fourth and the final volume. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] On the evening of June 6, 2011, The Delhi Walla received a small parcel from HarperCollins India. It was the fourth and final volume of The Delhi Walla series of books. Portraits, hot off the press. The earlier three volumes – Monuments, Hangouts, Food + Drinks – were published in 2010. (Those books are selling extremely well and the publishing house will come out with their second editions.) With the Portraits finally in my hands, I immediately took an auto-rickshaw to show it to some of the many people associated with the making of this volume. Later, in the night, I went to the sufi shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
City Monument – Rang Mahal, Red Fort Monuments by The Delhi Walla - June 6, 2011August 16, 20110 The Mughal harem. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] The largest apartment of the Mughal harem, Rang Mahal – the palace of colours - is one of the most evocative architectural compositions in Red Fort, a 17th century world of courts, palaces, mosques, water channels and gardens, now all of them in ruins. Shahjahan, the builder of Taj Mahal, raised the palace-fort complex on the banks of Yamuna, which, over the centuries, has moved away by several hundred yards. His walled world of marble buildings was the site of the decline and fall of the Mughals. The fort was looted by Nadir Shah, the king of Persia; and vandalized by the British, who ended the Mughal dynasty. After retaking Delhi following