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On The Delhi Walla
The blogger is a devotee of Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Author Arundhati Roy
The New Review, The Guardian, UK
“… Mayank Austen Soofi is street-spiritual as well as funny, engaging and wise.”
GQ India
Impressed with Mayank Austen Soofi’s distinct form of work, photographer Dayanita Singh has described it as something “between literature and photography, between documentary and fiction,” calling him the “archivist of Delhi.”
The Caravan
“The Delhi Walla is one of the city’s best-known flâneurs.”
Time Out Delhi
“The Delhi Walla is a one-man encyclopedia of the city.”
The Guardian
“The Delhi Walla is a celebration of the food, culture and books of India’s capital.”
Biography of The Delhi Walla
Since 2007, Mayank Austen Soofi has been collecting hundreds of stories taking place in Delhi, through writing and photography, for his acclaimed website The Delhi Walla. Every day, Mayank walks around the city with his camera and notebook to track down the part of extraordinary that exists in the seemingly mundane aspects of urban lives. By exploring and documenting the streets, buildings, houses, cuisines, traditions and people of Delhi, his work is also an attempt to give the megalopolis an intimate voice, and to capture the passing of time in this otherwise restlessly changing city.
Mayank is also a daily columnist for Hindustan Times newspaper, and the author of ‘Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District’ (published by Penguin) and the four-volume ‘The Delhi Walla’ guidebooks (HarperCollins).
Mayank Austen Soofi compulsively publishes texts and photos on his website, Facebook and Instagram. Follow him:
http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/mayankaustensoofi
Write to mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com
Lonely Planet Discover India
“The Delhi Walla shows an offbeat view of Delhi.”
National Geographic Traveler
“The Delhi Walla is an excellent resource for ‘alternative’ Delhi.”
CNNGo
“The Delhi Walla spends his time in Delhi’s most obscure streets looking for endangered chaiwallahs making tea or other cultural touchstones.”
Author Khushwant Singh
“The Delhi Walla has the knack of bringing out the unusual from the usual, and presenting the city in a different light.”
The Rough Guide to Rajasthan, Delhi and Agra
“The Delhi Walla is an excellent Delhi website with news and views about the city.”
The Independent
“The Delhi Walla is the most compelling guide to India’s capital.”
DK Eyewitness Travel Top 10 Delhi
“The Delhi Walla is a great website for offbeat views of the city.”
The Wall Street Journal
“The Delhi Walla is one of the most insightful guides on life — and food — in India’s capital.”
Historian William Dalrymple
“The Delhi Walla is Delhi’s most idiosyncratic and eccentric website, and reflects a real love of this great but under-loved and underrated city.”
Mail Today
“Perhaps the most compelling and attractive Indian blog is The Delhi Walla blog run by Mayank Austen Soofi.”
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