Mission Delhi – Adam Burakowski, Gujarat Bhawan Restaurant Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - January 31, 20231 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Moong dal, arhar dal, vegetable kofta, aloo gobhi matar, farsan, choorma laddu, dhokla, tillar papad and fresh rotis. This picturesque Gujarati thali will soon be a sweet, aching memory to the Polish ambassador. With his five-year term in India coming to an end, Adam Burakowski is to wind down the cozy routine he had built so lovingly around this homey meal. Each time a short half-hour spell of appointment-free afternoon chanced to ease his otherwise packed schedule at the embassy in Shanti Path, the ambassador would be ferried in his long, black car by chauffeur Sunil Kumar to Gujarat Bhawan in Kautilya Marg—a mere five-minute drive. There,
City Walk – Gali Chandi Wali, Old Delhi Walks by The Delhi Walla - January 31, 20230 Rue du silver. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] See the photo. That deg is filled with molten chandi, the silver. Anybody can come and get a bowl full of it for 30 rupees. If only. But then it is Gali Chandi Wali after all. The deg is actually filled with spicy hot nihari. The eatery stamps the access to Chandi Wali. The lane was a locality of silver jewellers. No such trader exists here now. The sole banner hanging in the alley this silent afternoon is of “Imran Welding Works—old shutter & new shutter, window & gate repairing.” The dimly lit cul-de-sac is as narrow as a corridor in a Ghaziabad flat, and is a khichdi of kal (future), aaj