Recreating known strangers. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In your life too, there must be people you don’t personally know but whom you would often spot in the BC (before corona) era. An ATM guard. A fruit seller. A beggar. On daily seeing these unknown yet familiar faces —during our commute, somewhere in our street — what impression do they leave on us? What do we take away from them? And how to remember? Sonam Pandey, a 22-year-old Master’s student in Hindi Literature, just finished immortalizing a man she knew — in a painting. The drawing looks like one of those watercolors sold by street artists in the touristic quarters of Paris—the typical evening sight of a musician serenading on a bridge,