Home Sweet Home – The Family Courtyard, Ganj Meer Khan Delhi Homes by The Delhi Walla - May 15, 2018May 15, 20182 Biography of an aangan. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The little courtyard, or aangan, is placed in the big house as snugly as a nest in a tree. The aged mansion in old Delhi’s Ganj Meer Khan was built more than a hundred years ago on a private garden. The house used to have just four rooms until the 1970s. As the family expanded, so did the private quarters to accommodate its new members. Today, there are 10 rooms with two additional floors, and each room is patterned after an independent household with its own kitchen and toilet. One such room belongs to Faridu Jaffery, his wife Shazia Zahid and their daughters Alisha and Alina. Shazia, who is also Faridu’s cousin,
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Jessica Faleiro, Goa Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - May 15, 20180 The 196th death. [Text and photos sent by Jessica Faleiro] Although she managed to write prolifically during her life-time, it was the weight of the unwritten tomes inside her that finally dragged Jessica Faleiro’s body down to its watery death. She was 67. Ms Faleiro was last seen walking into the Arabian Sea’s lit-up phosphorescence one full moon night on a Goan beach. The fishermen out on the sea that night told everyone that she had finally gone home. The life-guards called off the search because of their lack of understanding of irony. When her body washed up on the beach the next day, surrounded by empty Kingfisher bottles and plastic cups, everyone said that she looked