City Monument – Puma’s Heartbreaking Vandalisation of Old Delhi’s Prettiest Street, Galli Chooriwallan
The attack on beauty. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So amusing, this. Here is the quick easy way to destroy the most beautiful street in Old Delhi. The Delhi Walla is talking of Galli Chooriwallan, the street of…
Home Sweet Home – Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner’s Residence
A whole world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] To be a High Commissioner is, well, something. The Delhi Walla mulled this over while visiting the Australian High Commission recently. Amid the lush greenery is a mansion designed by…
City Nature – The Tree People of KG Marg, Central Delhi
The tree society. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The infirmities of old age had finally set in. That beloved old neem would simply topple in the next storm. So the authorities, in their wisdom, took a deep collective…
Atget’s Corner – 1056-1060, Delhi Photos
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
City Food – The Best Almond Milk, Quality Dairy & Paneer Bhandar
The rich elixir. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] There’s no getting around it. The Delhi Walla loves those sleepy markets where an entire day can be whiled away and where time seems to charmingly come to a halt….
City Hangout – A Lonely Railway Station, Sarojini Nagar Market
Where few trains stop. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You may think that this lonely little railway station is somewhere out there in the hinterland — one of those bleak little stops that express trains pass by in…
City Library – Late Leila Seth’s Private Study, Noida Sector 15A
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is in the private study of Justice Leila Seth, who died four months ago (5 May 2017). This quiet room, redolent with memory, “was her heart and…
Mission Delhi – Deepak Kumar, Outside Vidha Sabha Metro Station
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla can’t cycle more than 30 minutes on an exercise bike, but rickshaw pullers somehow manage constant pedalling day in, day out. What’s…
City Food – The Perfectly Impure Dosa, Indian Coffee House
The definitive North Indian version. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The romantics celebrate the Indian Coffee House for its turbaned waiters and torn rexine sofas (which, alas, have been replaced by steel chairs). The idealists, who believe that…
Home Sweet Home – Shamim us Din ‘s Cluttered Room, Gali Mochan
A whole world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Old Delhi’s Shamim ud Din loves machinery. So much so that he decided, years ago, that he needed a tiny dark room near the family residence to store it in….
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