Letter from Venice - Proust on Selfies, Piazza San Marco

Letter from Venice – Proust on Selfies, Piazza San Marco

In search of Marcel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is for Marcel Proust In April 2013, The Delhi Walla finished all the seven volumes of Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. Immediately afterwards I picked them…

Atget’s Corner – 781-785, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 781-785, 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 – Beef Kebab, Gali Suiwallan

City Food – Beef Kebab, Gali Suiwallan

The man thing. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Can Old Delhi be tasted? Set up by the Mughals, this crammed quarter of filthy lanes and improvised housing remains elusive to all but the most persistent explorers. A touristy…

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Ashlin Mathew, Somewhere Between Goa & Diu

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Ashlin Mathew, Somewhere Between Goa & Diu

The 64th death. [Text by Ashlin Mathew; photo by Shiv Ahuja] Ashlin Mathew, known for her strong opinions, judgmental looks and sunny personality, gurgled and died while in mid-speech in one of her homes between Goa and Diu. She was…