City Season – Raluca’s Spring, Green Park
A European’s Delhi spring. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Smelling a pinkish powder-puff (calliandra) flower, Raluca Sidon, a visitor from Bucharest, Romania, says, “I’m seeing it for the first time. It doesn’t grow in my country. I think…
City Food – Tandoori Chai, Zahra’s Restaurant & Café
An out-of-the-box tea. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] We all know about tandoori chicken and tandoori roti. But… tandoori chai? That’s more or less what they’re serving at an eatery in that cutely clumsy New Friends Colony Market…
Mission Delhi – Waris Ram, Karol Bagh
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s so appallingly early on this cold morning, but Waris Ram is already up and about, walking along a deserted street in the west Delhi…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Nargis Hussair, University of Hyderabad
The 254th death. [Text and photos by Nargis Hussair] Nargis Hussair, 27, died on a hot summer evening. They discovered her in the green pond near her mother’s house in Kerala where she spent most of her childhood. Earlier that…
Mission Delhi – Shivani, Gurgaon
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] These days, many of us find friends on Facebook. Here is how little Shivani made one in a Gurgaon park in the Graeter Delhi Region….
City Landmark – Arman Sewing Machine Repairing Shop, Jaffrabad
A thing of beauty. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A room half-submerged in darkness. Rusty relic-like equipments piled up next to each other. And a man kneeling upon a desk, his hands blackened with grease, his forehead furrowed…
Atget’s Corner – 1156-1160, Delhi Photos
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
City Hangout – Second Class Waiting Hall, Gurgaon Railway Station
Where time slows. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Some places have a character so unique that the air feels saturated with a peculiar distinctness impossible to recreate elsewhere. They seem to exist outside the humdrum of the everyday…
City Monument – The Mosque’s Minar, Jama Masjid
Top of the world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Pigeons have it lucky. They can simply soar upwards to easily mount the imposing dome of Jama Masjid—to take in a panoramic view of not only the Walled City…
Mission Delhi – Paridhi Narayan Singh, Ghaziabad
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s early morning and Paridhi Narayan Singh is struggling to open her eyes at her parents’ Ghazaiabd apartment in the Greater Delhi Region. She instinctively…
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