Mission Delhi – Harsh Vardhan Dutta, Lodhi Garden Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - February 4, 2015February 4, 20153 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is a cold windy afternoon. The sky is grey. Lodhi Garden is looking bleak. But this young man is looking like March rather than December. May be his sunny disposition has something to do with the novel he is reading under this lean almond tree. “I’m on sabbatical from work since last few months,” Harsh Vardhan Dutta tells The Delhi Walla. Keeping aside John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, he says, “I live far away in west Delhi but I drive to Lodhi Garden at least once every week, and this is my favorite reading spot in the entire park.” Looking up at the grim
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Manpreet Kaur Soni, Maitreyi College Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - February 4, 2015February 11, 20152 The second death. [Text by Manpreet Kaur Soni; photo by Davinder S. Soni] Manpreet Kaur Soni, a student of English Literature at Delhi University’s Maitreyi College, passed away on the early morning of February 3. She was 18. Her day started off just like any other morning. Ms Soni got off from her bus and was walking towards her college when she fell on the footpath and suffered a fatal cardiac arrest. Her close friends believe that her habit of keeping her feelings to herself was the real reason behind her sudden death. Ms Soni lived in West Delhi. Her parents say that she never wanted to be a part of the rat race and wished to carve out her own way in