Atget’s Corner – 601-605, Delhi Photos
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,…
City Food – Banoffee Pie, The Big Chill Café
The best pie. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You can have the world’s best banoffee pie only in Delhi. And in Delhi you can have it only in the much-loved The Big Chill chain of cafes. And the…
Atget’s Corner – 596-600, Delhi Photos
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,…
Letter from Allahabad – Poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Jyoti Apartments
The prodigal poet [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Posing in a camouflage jacket and faded denims, poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra looks like People magazine’s sexiest man alive. He has long black hair, a five o’clock shadow, a cigarette…
City Monument – War Wall, Mehrauli
The unknown soldiers. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It does not look like a place worth stopping for. This is just a yellowing wall, albeit in historic Mehrauli. But stop. An inscribed marble plaque is embedded in the…
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