Atget’s Corner – 451-455, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - August 25, 2014August 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 451 to 455. 451. Dilli Gate 452.
City Food – Heera Lal’s Kulle Chaat, Chawri Bazaar Food by The Delhi Walla - August 25, 2014August 25, 20141 Invented delights. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He picks up a whole boiled potato, scoops out most of its flesh with a knife and fills the ensuing void with delicious stuffing. Depending on your taste, he can substitute the potato with melon/cucumber/shakarkandi/mango/apple/banana. This is the famous kulle chaat – and to The Delhi Walla's knowledge*, it is available only at the extremely humble-looking Heera Lal Chat Corner in Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazaar. Sitting adjacent to a framed picture of the aforementioned delicacy, Ram Babu Kushwaha says that he invented it at the turn of this century. “One day I was simply experimenting by hollowing out the potato and filling it with spices and lemon juice," he says. "It tasted nice