City Library – Vinod Mehta's Books, Hazrat Nizamuddin East

City Library – Vinod Mehta’s Books, Hazrat Nizamuddin East

A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The warm daylight is streaming in through the window. It is utterly quiet. This is the book room of Vinod Mehta, the founder-editor of Outlook magazine who died in March,…

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Binodan Kumar Dev Sarma, Dwarka

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Binodan Kumar Dev Sarma, Dwarka

The 55th death. [Text by Binodan Kumar Dev Sarma; photo by a “Dear Friend”] Iambic On a winter morning they discovered him still, fist open, legs apart, loins wet, a book of poetry lay open over his stiller chest, page…