City Moment – Father to Son, Turkman Gate Bazaar Moments by The Delhi Walla - April 14, 2016April 14, 20163 The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The father is at work. The little son is playing in an adjoining alley. One morning The Delhi Walla sees the man and his boy in Delhi’s Turkman Gate Bazaar. The father is standing outside his meat shop. Taking off his apron, he calls out to the son. The little boy walks over to the big man. The father grins at his boy, and hands over the knife to his son, gently asking asking him to try to make a cut across a piece of buffalo meat. The son looks shy. The father stands behind him and nudges him. The son is feeling too shy to move. The father smiles and affectionately shakes
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Rajeev Roark, The Coffee Lab Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - April 14, 20161 The 120th death. [Text by Rajeev Roark; photo by Abhinav Chandel] Many things can and are being said about Rajeev Roark. The epithets rain in place of the much needed clouds in the much too dry Lutyens' Delhi. Oddly missing are the monikers of a good man and the nom de plume of a gentle soul. Mr Roark was, for all intents, a deviant man. He had a weakness for good whiskeys, ever better coffees and books that cast effects on one's body as well as the mind. He was quick to admit and boast his perversions and lethargic in his ability to mind anything except that would prove to him that clocks are truly a worthwhile invention. The rabid consumer of