City Notice – ‘Somewhere in Delhi’ Exhibition, Second Show in Venice General by The Delhi Walla - March 2, 2016March 2, 20162 Facebook on khadi. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was a curious show. Instead of being decked up on walls, the art works were laid down on the floor. The Delhi Walla attended the second viewing of Somewhere in Delhi: 17 Printings on Hand-Woven Khadi Muslin in Venice. The venue, M9, is an ambitious work-in-progress space that is being billed as the ‘Museum of the 20th Century Venice’. (The first viewing of the art works was held in an outlying island of this watery city. I wrote about it here.) Somewhere in Delhi is a collaboration between Venetian designer Anna Gerotto and Delhi blogger Mayank Austen Soofi. Since 2009, the aforementioned blogger has been telling the story of a complicated city of
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Srija Sharma, Ludhiana Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - March 2, 20160 The 113th death. [Text by Srija Sharma; photo by Preeti Saini] She dozed off to a deep slumber while sitting in her library, a work of lifetime. And never woke up. Srija Sharma wasn't the one who believed in clichés. So there was no coffee or rain pouring down while she read. She is survived by a husband, son and daughter, with whom she wished she could share her passion of Khaled Hosseni, Agatha Christie, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Mark Twain and Sidney Sheldon. She wasn't the cute girl who visited Oxford Bookstore and sat in a corner, reading and watching the time pass by from the nearby window. She was seen haggling with vendors of Daryaganj for the hardcover copy of