Mission Delhi – Manoj, Pragati Maidan Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - July 11, 20240 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Its construction began in May 1639, it was completed almost a decade later in April 1648–Old Delhi’s Lal Qila, the seat of the Mughals. This Lal Qila is in New Delhi and it is getting completed in mere two days. Manoj is giving finishing touches to the monument. “I am,” he says matter-of-factly, responding to a query if he is an artist. Attired for the intensely humid afternoon in workday shorts and T-shirt, the Faridabad dweller’s current studio happens to be a roadside pave near Bharat Mandapam in Pragati Maidan. The canvas is an outer wall of a busy underpass, the road underneath echoing with the steady