City Moment – Dance in the Park, Lodhi Gardens Moments by The Delhi Walla - November 19, 2020November 19, 20201 The beautiful Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A romantic pair is holding hands, etc. An overly-dressed couple is posing for pre-wedding photography. A noisy family is busy over chips packets. Two guys are playing badminton. A jhaal moori seller is watching a Haryanvi music video on his mobile. A woman in a track suit is walking purposefully in circles. A bunch of sweating male athletes are playfully tossing cuss words at each other. So far, so Lodhi Garden. It is early evening in the central Delhi public park. Suddenly something unusual surfaces, not part of the park’s regular sights. This is a group of young women, wearing the same kind of cotton silk saris (with stripes of purple, golden
Debris of Life & Mind – Journalism Student Madhuraj’s Dream, Lakshmi Nagar, Delhi City Dreams by The Delhi Walla - November 19, 20200 Sharing a dream. [Text by Madhuraj, photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] I am walking on a lonely path and you pass me by You're walking with your friends and there are some smiles I reach home, I check my phone, and there are new messages I throw my bag and sit on the chair, oh it's you on my whatsapp You've written to me that for realising something, it took you a little time You like me and you can say it out loud, there are emojis and some lines I don't believe, I burst into tears, I am crying for a little long I reply with 'I like you too' and a heart emoji instead of saying love I fall asleep, I wake up, and the next day I
Mission Delhi – Pavan, Sadar Bazar, Gurgaon Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - November 19, 2020November 24, 20200 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Each day is like the other, and nothing seems to change. Pavan’s life remains static. He feels contended with the arrangement, he declares. He doesn’t ask for much, he says — just enough work every day so as to never have the luxury of spare moments to feel sad. In his 30s, the labourer is working this afternoon in Gurugram’s Sadar Bazar, outside a multi-storey pansari (grocer) shop. He is helping unload a cart full of cement sacks, picking up each one with his bare arms and transferring them onto the back of a colleague. “The main thing is to keep getting work... I’m not scared