City Neighbourhood – Gali Bhootni Wali, Old Delhi
Lane of ghosts. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Bitter cold. Not a mouse stirring. All is silent and dark. Gali Bhootni Wali in Old Delhi gets its name from ghosts, but no such bhoot is to be seen…
City Vox Popili – A Life in Arpita’s Day, Delhi
As part of The Delhi Walla series asking citizens to “write down everything you did in one day.” Send yours in 400 words max to thedelhiwallasoofi@gmail.com [Photo by Aditya Ahuja] [By Arpita Chowdhury, a writer, poet, journalist in Delhi.] “The…
City Food – Tasty Trinity, Gurgaon
Gaalis in the galis. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] In foggy December, one of the few consolations during the gloomy thandi can be the company of jalebi, pakori and adrak chai. Every pincode in the big wide Delhi…
City Life – Swearwords, Walled City
Gaalis in the galis. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] An elderly man sits all day long outside a long-dead chai shop in Old Delhi’s Mohalla Qabristan. His gestures are courtly, his Urdu pronunciation is flawless, and his every…
City Vox Popili – A Life in Shezi’s Day, South Delhi
As part of The Delhi Walla series asking citizens to “write down everything you did in one day.” Send yours in 400 words max to thedelhiwallasoofi@gmail.com [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] [By S. Zeyaul Abrar Husain “Shezi”, a “pharma professional”…
City Food – Gajar ka Halwa, Around Town
Carrot tourism. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Red Fort looks red from the outside. But a lot of it is white from within. Gajar halwa sports this very same red. Carrot is red after all, most of…
City Neighbourhood – Last Bungalows, Hazrat Nizamuddin East
Era, passing. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Thak, thak, thak. The dusty air is reverberating with the sound of continued hammering. The source of the clatter is a white bungalow, here in Nizamuddin East. The bungalow is being…
City Vox Popili – A Life in Jasmine’s Day, Batala, Punjab
As part of The Delhi Walla series asking citizens to “write down everything you did in one day.” Send yours in 400 words max to thedelhiwallasoofi@gmail.com [Photo by Jasmine Dhaliwal] [By Jasmine Dhaliwal, a doctor] This morning when I got…
City Neighbourhood – Ganj Meer Khan, Old Delhi
A place-name in the Walled City. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The suburbs are wild with five-storied housings, dwarfed by even taller multistories. But this five-storey is looming Everest-like in Old Delhi’s cramped, narrow Ganj Meer Khan, where…
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Rupin Walter Desai, East Patel Nagar
The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] This retired English Literature professor is India’s greatest living Shakespeare scholar (he is also an authority on Yeats!). Rupin Walter Desai founded the legendary Hamlet Studies, “an international journal of research on The…
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