One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Long hair. Same-same dresses. And all three are dancing together this morning in a corner of this south Delhi public park. As if fairies had taken over a secret spot, thinking no one else was around. The young women laugh. “No, I want to be a YouTuber,” says one of them, clearly the group leader. But Kanchan Patwa corrects herself immediately. “I’m already a YouTuber... I have my own channel with lakhs of followers.” Kanchan currently has 219K subscribers on her YouTube channel. She is a dancer, and lands up daily in one of the very many Delhi destinations (Connaught Place, Dilli Haat, Lodhi Road,

One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s a familiar yet a super-rare sight. No, not the centuries old-monument behind him, but the elderly man himself, here in in south Delhi's Deer Park. He is spinning khadi, the way you might have seen Gandhi do on old photographs. Except that this man’s charkha, or spinning wheel, looks more modern, the wheels fitted inside an elegant coffee-colored wooden box. “Yes, I spin my own khadi,” says the gentleman, introducing himself as Musaddi Lal Gupta. He says that he lives nearby with children and grandchildren, and comes to the park to “pass my empty time.” But why, at 71, does he need to make his own