Atget’s Corner – 401-405, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 31, 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 401 to 405. 401. Outside Humayun's
Atget’s Corner – 396-400, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 30, 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 396 to 400. 396. Mehrauli 397. Nehru
City Travel – Pekhari Village, Great Himalayan National Park Travel by The Delhi Walla - July 30, 2014July 30, 20144 The UNESCO heritage site. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Perched almost on the peak, this is a hamlet of gabled houses and fruity smells. Black and Yellow Grosbeaks whistle through apricot trees. Wild mongooses dart through cannabis bushes. The imperially slim men and women grow old working the slanting fields. And down the hill flows the sacred Tirthan river. Today this timeless shell of 80 houses is cracking open, its people waking up to new possibilities. At 2,170m, the far-flung Pekhari village in Kullu district in mountainous Himachal Pradesh is a gateway to the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP). In June 2014, at a special session in Doha, Qatar, it was included in the Unesco World Heritage list. On its
Atget’s Corner – 391-395, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 29, 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 391 to 395. 391. Turkman Gate 392.
Atget’s Corner – 386-390, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 28, 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 386 to 390. 386. Lodhi Gardens 387.
City Landmark – Bharat Hair Dresser, Khan Market Landmarks by The Delhi Walla - July 28, 2014July 28, 20141 Small wonder. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The old Khan Market exists in memories alone. Sovereign Dairies has closed. Raj Sweet Shop has closed. Empire Stores has closed. Caryhom Ice Cream has closed. Modern Hair Dressers has closed. Pat a Cake has closed. The Music Shop has closed. The Book Shop has closed. Bharat Hair Dresser has not closed. This salon opened in 1952, a year after the setting up of Khan Market, which remained a cheap neighborhood bazaar until the 1990s when it transformed into a high-end shopping destination. Like the last man standing in the wake of a nuclear holocaust, Bharat Hair Dresser continues to retain the character of a shop-around-the-corner. The Hindi-speaking barbers gossip about the morning headlines
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Aditi Bhatia, Saidulajab Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - July 26, 20140 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 he attended at ages 13 and 20 in the late 19th century. In early 2013, The Delhi Proustians started taking Les confidences de salon (Drawing room confessions) around the city to explore people’s lives, thoughts, values and experiences. The series involves interviews across Delhi and is conducted by writers Manika Dhama and Mayank Austen Soofi. For the nineteenth installment of Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire, Aditi Bhatia -- a "born-and-bred Delhi girl and budding writer" -- made confessions to Manika, outside the former’s office in Saidulajab. Your
Atget’s Corner – 381-385, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 25, 2014July 25, 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 381 to 385. 381. Scindhia House 382.
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Regal Cinema Building Style by The Delhi Walla - July 24, 20142 Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla finds this man behind the Regal Cinema Building in Connaught Place. He is wearing a pink lace golden-colored turban and a green dhoti. His accessories include a pink scarf, a pink plastic flower, a green balloon, a red wrist band, a single set of white and orange earrings, a bunch of green peacock feathers, and a number of beaded necklaces and good-luck amulets. And he is looking so confident. No one can be as heroically slapdash as this man. He too is our icon. Nonsense verse 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Atget’s Corner – 376-380, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 23, 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 376 to 380. 376. Janpath 377. Chawri