The other side of bus stands. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Post-midnight, the bus shelters in Delhi lose their daytime ordinariness, and are infused with unearthly splendour. Gleaming with electrical lights and publicity panels, each shelter transmutes into a rectangle of radiance. Cloaked in night’s utter blackness, their luminosity is as reassuring as the sight of immovable lighthouses in dark, turbulent seas. The capital has thousands of bus shelters. Over a couple of nights, The Delhi Walla caroused through the city, stopping by some of these dream-like sanctuaries. The neon-lit panel at the bus shelter outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) was promoting a bank’s digital service. The female model’s smile lay frozen as a multitude of men and