City Landmark – Midland Bookshop, Shopping Mall, Gurgaon Landmarks by The Delhi Walla - February 28, 2019February 28, 20190 A link in the chain. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Many snobby Delhiites crib about Gurgaon as a destination with nothing about culture and everything about malls (as if malls were not an integral part of our modern civilisation). One of the popular reasons given to dismiss the place is that it doesn’t have bookstores. It’s a false accusation. There’s a book store specialising in hardback editions (in a mall!) and there’s a cute bookshop at the railway statio—both have appeared on the pages of this blogsite. Then there is one of Gurgaon’s oldest surviving bookstores, in one of its oldest surviving malls. New Midland Book Shop, in the quaintly named Shopping Mall in DLF Phase 1, might ring a bell even to
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Deepshi Chowdhury, Noida Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - February 28, 2019February 28, 20190 The 213rd death. [Text and photo sent by Deepshi Chowdhury] There she lay on her bed, her face serene. Deepshi Chowdhury was found dead in her apartment. Lying on the bed, she was as still as a Paulo Coelho beside her. She died in the most ordinary fashion in contrast to the kind of death she fantasized. Fortunately, a Faiz's ghazal playing in the stereo beside her infused a bit of romantic element to the circumstances. Ms Chowdhury’s friends recall how she wished for absurd things like marrying Urdu, the language of her beloved poets. Her two bosom friends allege her of suffocating them with her love, for guffawing at her own self-deprecating jokes, and catching feelings for people more frequently than she wrote