City Walk – Lodhi Road, Central Delhi

City Walk – Lodhi Road, Central Delhi

The tree-lined pathway. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A great multitude of giant-sized trees gives Lodhi Road its grave dignity. These aged-looking brown trunks bend over the roadside making graceful swaying patterns. The branches expand and bifurcate, frequently…

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Somak Ghoshal, Defence Colony

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Somak Ghoshal, Defence Colony

The Proustian self-introspection. [By The Delhi Proustians] The Proust Questionnaire represents a form of interview that owes its structure to answers given by French novelist Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time, at two birthday parties that…

City Moment – Buffalo’s Martyrdom, Gali Kuen Wali

City Moment – Buffalo’s Martyrdom, Gali Kuen Wali

The melancholic Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla came across a lifeless buffalo in Old Delhi’s Gali Kuen Wali street. The body was lying upside down. Its mouth was open — the…

City List – Old Cinemas, Around Town

City List – Old Cinemas, Around Town

Delhi by list. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi has dozens of multiplexes. Indeed, the country’s first multiplex, PVR, opened in the capital in Saket in 1997. The Delhi Walla is in possession of the cinema-listing page of…