City Season – October Light, Around Town General by The Delhi Walla - October 13, 20230 Tracking the season's subtle glow [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The shadows the tree leaves are making on the wall are continually trembling (because a slow breeze is blowing the adjoining trees). On the same wall, a spherical shadow of some indecipherable thing enlarges and contracts. Elsewhere on the wall, spheres of brightnesses partly intersect, like circles in a Venn diagram (see photo). Meanwhile, the evening light is becoming slightly gold, stripping the wall of its corporeality, turning it almost translucent. Such are the illusions unfolding on Delhi’s Kasturba Gandhi Marg. The shadows formed by the foliage of the roadside peepals have transformed a dull boundary wall into a panel of artistic cut-outs. This is indeed a special time of the year,
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Zahid Ali Khan, Somewhere in Delhi Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - October 13, 20230 The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] He joined the All India Radio as an Urdu news reader in March, 1965. He retired in April, 1999. He hasn’t retired from hyperactive life. At 86, he flits around the city everyday on his own, meeting friends, and attending literary meets. The venerable Zahid Ali Khan agrees to become a part of my Proust Questionnaire series in which citizens are nudged to make “Parisian parlour confessions”, all to explore our distinct experiences. The principal aspect of your personality. Reading and writing. I have written 12 books, both poetry and prose. Your favorite qualities in a man. His akhlaq, eitquees, should be pleasing and acceptable to the society. He should not have negative approach to life. Your favorite qualities