City Series – Jayabharathi Padmanabhan in San Francisco, We the Isolationists (368th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Jayabharathi Padmanabhan] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see myself hearing the clock stop, forever suspended in the present. Haunted by a guilty past and yet left with nothing…
City Obituary – Poet Gulzar Dehlvi, Noida, 1926-2020
The passing of a time. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] New Okhla Industrial Development Authority — who would relate a place with such an unpoetic name with writers? But novelist Vikram Seth lives in this same Noida, after…
Mission Delhi – Raju Karigar, Sadar Bazar
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In this season of losses, it is just another loss. And yet it has to be recorded. Gurgaon’s Sadar Bazar in the Greater Delhi Region…
City Series – Anisha Saxena in Faridabad, We the Isolationists (367th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Anisha Saxena] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see madagascar periwinkles (sadabahar ke phool) glowing under the sultriness of the sun. I feel a warm gush of air kissing…
City Series – Sudhir Pratap Singh in Delhi, We the Isolationists (366th Corona Diary)
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Sudhir Pratap Singh] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona… and I see damp Odhnas on the clothesline in my village home flowy, diaphanous drapes of yellow, red, magenta I feel the…
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…
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