City Monument – Turkman Gate, Asaf Ali Road Monuments by The Delhi Walla - October 27, 2014October 27, 20141 The Walled City guardian. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Old Delhi’s greatly diminished boundary wall once had 14 gateways. Each gate was named for the direction it faced, save one. That gate, named after the Sufi saint Hazrat Shah Turkman Bayabani, is the only one that still throbs to the daily rhythms of its neighbourhood. The Mughal-era Turkman Gate — one of the four gates that have survived — is flanked by a police post and the multi-storeyed Delhi Stock Exchange. Looking out over the slow-moving autorickshaws, cars and buses, the gateway stands at the border of Old and New Delhi, just like its seemingly identical counterparts in Ajmeri Gate and Dilli Gate. But Ajmeri Gate lies ignored outside the
Atget’s Corner – 551-555, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - October 27, 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 551 to 555. 551. Mathura Road 552.