City Walk – Gali Sui Walan, Old Delhi Walks by The Delhi Walla - October 31, 20230 The street of the tailor's needle. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Thickness of a hair; tiny opening at one end. It is the sui, the tailor’s needle, and this barely tangible thing lends its name to this super-bustling Old Delhi street. But Gali Sui Walan ought to be called Gali Roti Wale. So many roti bakeries here: Bhaijaan Roti Wale, Bhoore Khan Roti Wale (the owner, Bhoore Khan, wears Lucknowi white kurtas), Raees Dhaba (it also serves nihari after 7.30pm), Babulal Hotel (unlike other roti places that make tandoori roti, it specialises in handkerchief-thin roomali roti). The last of these places bears the publicity banner of Bhai Yaseen Gusal Wale, a 24-hour funeral facility in Pahari Imli promising free service
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Aarti Talwar, Somewhere in Delhi Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - October 31, 20230 The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Besides having a day-job in the corporate world, Aarti Talwar is the co-founder of The Dandelion Collective, a book club that completes a year this October. She agreed to become a part of our Proust Questionnaire series in which citizens are nudged to make “Parisian parlour confessions”, all to explore our distinct experiences. Your chief characteristic. I am a reader and by virtue of that, a thinker. Your favorite qualities in a man. The ability to take a no without being offended. Your favorite qualities in a woman. Same. What do you appreciate the most in your friends? The fact that they are drama-less! Your main fault. My only fault has been looking back to bad times and holding on