Atget’s Corner – 1176-1180, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - January 22, 20210 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, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 1,00,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Five randomly picked pictures from this collection are regularly put up on the pages of this website. The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.” Here are Delhi photos numbered 1176 to 1180. 1176. A Candle of Remembrance...
Mission Delhi – Shankar Kumar Shah, Mehrauli Road Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - January 22, 2021January 22, 20210 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s late morning and he is quietly arranging his cart, here on Gurgaon's Mehrauli Road in the Greater Delhi Region. He is picking up each orange, one by one, from inside a carton, and stacking it upon a decoratively arranged layer of those same oranges in a manner as concentratively as one building a house of cards. Shankar Kumar Shah, 19, is a fruit seller. He is also a graduate student. “I’m in first year BA in Political Science.” Mr Shah is a new arrival to the so-called Millennium City. He left his village in Supaul, Bihar, six months ago. Ideally, he should have stayed back to