City News – An Important Award for Arundhati Roy, Yavatmal General by The Delhi Walla - May 14, 2014May 14, 20141 On a par with the Booker. [Gathered from agency reports; photo by Unknown] The Maharashtra-based Samata Parva Pratishtan conferred the tenth annual Mahatma Jotiba Phule-Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Samata Ratna award on Delhi-based author Arundhati Roy on 10 May 2014, in Yavatmal, a town 450 miles from Bombay. Professor Madhav Sarkunde, spokesperson for the trust, said, “Arundhati Roy’s introduction to the recently published annotated edition of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste has touched us. Babasaheb was disallowed by caste Hindus from delivering this address in 1936. Arundhati Roy’s comprehensive and incisive introduction corrects the historic injustice done to Dr Ambedkar by non-Dalits. This introduction, we hope, will help Babasaheb’s revolutionary text to reach a wide national and international readership. This is a landmark
Atget’s Corner – 136-140, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - May 14, 2014May 14, 20141 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 136 to 140. 136. Hazrat