Mission Delhi – Kalu, Central Delhi
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His face is almost invisible, under the huge load of goat fodder he is carrying on his head. All that you see are glimpses of his glinting eyes and flashes of his nose…
Mission Delhi – Jinachandran Nair, South City 2
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Jinachandran Nair’s farewell party was celebrated in a restaurant not far from his office. Colleagues from various departments, including his own, arrived in groups. There were sandwiches, pastries, samosas, biscuits, coffee and tea….
Mission Delhi – Joban, Khan Market
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Even during the best times of the pre-Covid era, Khan Market was a bleak place in early mornings. There would be no crowd, and only a few cafes would be open for early…
Mission Delhi – Nisha Gandhi, Sector 54, Gurgaon
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She sure is an artist but something’s not right with the frog she has drawn. The eyes are popping out in opposing directions. The nose is looking somewhat odd. Surely she’d be better…
City Hangout – Brijendra Jain’s Mask Stall, Chawri Bazar
New faces in town. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You probably won’t spot such a wide range of quirky and cheap masks in online shopping sites. Neither in the upscale Khan Market, where a Front Lane store has…
Mission Delhi – Sunil Kumar Singh, Karawal Nagar
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His life was not much different from that of Ulysses, in Homer’s Odysseus. As you know well, Homer’s classic is about the hero’s long and epic journey to home. Regarding Sunil Kumar Singh…
City Series – Manas Mehta in Delhi, We the Isolationists (406th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Manas Mehta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see news, 4 months old news. 14 Corona positive cases have emerged from Jaipur. Panic has struck anyone, it’s the first…
City Series – Ashita Soni in Shivpuri, We the Isolationists (405th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Ashita Soni] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see the life I want to reside and life that I left behind. I imagine the people I would come upon,…
City Series – Somreeta in Calcutta, We the Isolationists (404th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Somreeta] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myriad of years unfurling, hills that I have been planning to go, that may be I will, smiling at strangers, not…
City Series – Natasha Topno in Jamshedpur, We the Isolationists (403rd Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Natasha Topno] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see us, the garden, and fireflies on a dark sultry night, glimmering with their cold greenish hue, stars on earth. I…
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