Atget’s Corner – 736-740, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - April 1, 2015April 1, 20150 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 736 to 740. 736. Paharganj 737. Connaught
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Calcutta’s The Telegraph on the Farewell Series Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - April 1, 2015April 1, 20152 On passing away. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] In March 2015, The Telegraph newspaper of Calcutta wrote about The Delhi Walla's Our Self-Written Obituaries. The article was by Reena Martins. Click here to read it or see below. I am dead The famous and others who're still alive have written their obituaries on a website. Reena Martins looks at them "Bengali writer Taslima Nasreen was beheaded yesterday by Islamist terrorists at her home in New Delhi where she had been living in exile. A video of the decapitation was posted on social media sites this morning." Don't reach for the phone or the television remote yet, for all is well with Nasreen. This is just the writer penning her own obituary. "It was inevitable," she writes. Delhi