The Delhi Walla Books – Enjoying a Long Life The Delhi Walla books by The Delhi Walla - March 12, 2012March 12, 20124 More considered reviews and recognition. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] A cat has nine lives. The Delhi Walla books - all four of them - are enjoying the same fate. Published by HarperCollins India in 2010, the books were widely considered to be mere guidebooks. Most Indian newspapers found them too insignificant to feature in their review sections. Delhi-centric magazines like Time Out Delhi and First City ignored the books. Hindustan Times was kind to take note of them, but the daily disposed off the four books in four brief sentences. It is 2012. The books are still selling well. And they are popping up in more thoughtful journals. The January issue of The Book Review, India’s most prestigious literary journal, devoted an impressive portion
City Reading – The Delhi Proustians – XII, Indian Coffee House Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - March 12, 2012April 17, 20132 A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 12th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. It is 7.18 pm and The Delhi Walla is with three fellow Proustians. Abdul Muqhtadir, a law student in Delhi University. Sourabh Gupta, a writer from Noida (once again he has come with oatmeal biskuts!). Richard Weiderman, a retired teacher from Grand Rapid, Michigan. Actually, we can’t call ourselves Proustians. Collins dictionary defines the term as an adjective (“of or relating to Marcel Proust, his works, or his style”) and as a noun (“an admirer of Marcel Proust's