City Season – June Heat, Delhi Autos
The auto driver’s watering hole. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] June in Delhi means burning heat, intense humidity, erratic water supply and irregular power cuts. Every person in the city, whether rich or poor, finds a refuge to…
City Notice – The Delhi Proustians XXIII, Outside Humayun’s Tomb
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The 23rd meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust, will take place on 25 June 2012. Venue: The garden outside the…
City Food – Biryani, Around Town
Fragrant treasures. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Marinated meat in layers of semi-boiled rice, the Persian import has proved more durable than the foreign dynasties that brought it to Delhi. Cooked in earthenware pots – the lids sealed…
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Defence Colony Market
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla saw this woman in Defense Colony Market, an upscale destination in the southern part of the city. She was wearing a tie dye frock. Her feet…
City Notice – A New Book by The Delhi Walla
It’s a fact. Penguin India will publish a new book by The Delhi Walla later in 2012. It is a non-fiction. The cover is lovely. More updates in the coming months. The Delhi Walla is the author of four guidebooks…
Photo Essay – Delhi Dream, Scindia House
The Indian reality. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This man. Barefoot. The Delhi Walla spotted him one late morning in Scindia House, Connaught Place. He was sleeping in the corridor. His mouth was half-open. The man’s makeshift pillow…
City Reading – The Delhi Proustians XXII, Hazrat Nizamuddin Chilla
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 22nd meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
Mission Delhi – Mother, Turkman Gate
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She is mumbling something to herself. The Delhi Walla meets her one morning on a congested lane near Turkman Gate, one of the four surviving…
City Monument – Jain Svetambar Temple, Kinari Bazaar
Luxury of the ascetics. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Amid Delhi’s dense tangle of mosques, forts and tombs, it is easy to miss the city’s non-Islamic heritage. Let Jain Svetambar Temple not be one of them. The most…
City Moment – Veiled Biker, India Gate Circle
The beautiful Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla was walking on the circular road built around the India Gate maidan. Just after crossing the turning to Shahjahanan Road, I saw a woman…
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