City Food - Kallan Bawarchi, Matia Mahal

City Food – Kallan Bawarchi, Matia Mahal

Landmark kitchen. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The potbellied cauldrons. The long metal ladles. The platters with chopped green chillies. The smoke-blackened walls. Air smelling of elaichi, laung, mirchi, pyaz, adrak, lehsun. Here is the timeless world of…

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Labourer Salman Abbas, Around Town

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Labourer Salman Abbas, Around Town

The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Salman Abbas’s day is full of physically exhausting work. In between assignments, the young labourer lies down on the long wooden bench of his employer’s warehouse in central Delhi, and instantly falls into…