Marcel Proust’s garden. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cold grey morning The Delhi Walla walked into the woods of Bois de Boulogne, a park along the edge of 16th aggrandizement of Paris, one of the city’s wealthiest sections. Most of the trees were bare, except for a few tall varieties that had some leaves clinging on to their higher reaches. In 1881, novelist Marcel Proust had his first asthma attack after a walk in this garden. While walking, I picked up a yellow leaf from the ground and placed it inside my hardbound copy of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. The final pages of this volume are devoted to this park.