Atget’s Corner – 131-135, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - May 13, 20140 The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur's paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 25,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Each day five randomly picked pictures from this collection will be put up on the pages of this website. The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.” Here are Delhi photos numbered 131 to 135. 131. Place
City Moment – Dyed Chicks, Okhla Moments by The Delhi Walla - May 13, 2014May 14, 20144 The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla met a vendor of dyed chicks in a congested street in Okhla. “These are not for eating,” he said. The babies were stuffed inside a wire mesh cage fitted on the rear carrier of the man's bicycle. Squawking nosily like a bunch of unruly classroom boys, the little ones were dyed in yellow, orange, purple, pink, saffron, green and blue. “Every morning I get the stock from Ghazipur,” said the vendor, referring to the wholesale poultry market on the city's eastern edges. While we talked, potential buyers stopped by to check out the chicks; each was priced at five rupees. One small boy in a