Home Sweet Home – Prachi’s Rented Room, Roop Nagar
A woman’s world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A small room stacked with books, a writing table, two single beds and two pairs of grilled windows. Plus, a terrace where she frequently strolls, gathers ideas and later jots…
City Life – Shaheena’s Lockdown Quietude, Old Delhi
The silence of the pandemic. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was never so quiet. So quiet that one could clearly hear the chirping of birds at noon time, as if this were a bird-filled orchard. For more…
City Food – Lockdown Chefs, Sector 30
Kitchen twins. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Is yellow dal channa, masoor or urad? What is dhuli dal? Be honest. Don’t cheat on Google. It’s ok if you don’t know. The thing that can be said about Abhimanyu…
City Walk – Corona-Era Lodhi Garden, Central Delhi
Old beauty in the new normal. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is super-crowded. Lodhi Garden. There are totas, bayas, kala papeehas, puhyas, mynas, babilas, kauwas, ullus, gaurayyas… bulbuls, koyals, the beautifully named ram chiriyas, kabutars and, of…
City Series – Sayonee Goswami in Digboi, Assam, We the Isolationists (365th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Sayonee Goswami] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a world so beautiful and green, sitting under a laburnum tree, I am reading the classic tales of Agatha, and…
City Series – Uneza Irshad in Delhi, We the Isolationists (364th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Uneza Irshad] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see what an inquilabi I used to be (I’ll always be ) I see the last winters in a glimpse the…
City Series – Saurabh Singh in Siddharth Nagar, We the Isolationists (362nd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Saurabh Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself sitting in a car, looking out side and thinking about my half-completed book of an incomplete love story. I…
City Series – Kanan Parmar in Noida, We the Isolationists (361st Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kanan Parmar] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see a beautifully painted sky that is being clicked by thousands and the photos being posted online. I see how people…
City Series – Veena Gupta in Faridabad, We the Isolationists (360th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Veena Gupta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself on a vacation with my college friends. No inhibitions, no barriers, simply fun-filled days reliving the carefree college days….
City Series – Vikram Singh in Ujjalwas Village in Rajasthan, We the Isolationists (359th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Vikram Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself holding within, the image of her auspicious arrival when she came upwards from the stairs and there I stood…
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