City Monument – Delhi Sultanate Ruins, Around Town
Lodhi-era and others. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Concealed amid the ruins of south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Ghiyas-ud-din Balban’s unmarked grave bakes in the hot sun. This doesn’t befit his stature. “During the whole time that he…
Atget’s Corner – 151-155, 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 Landmark – Taxi Stands, Around Town
Almost history. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Just the place to while away an evening—string cots under mulberry trees, cold water in earthenware pots, a table fan to keep the flies away, and if it rains, a cabin…
Atget’s Corner – 146-150, 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,…
Atget’s Corner – 141-145, 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 News – An Important Award for Arundhati Roy, Yavatmal
On a par with the Booker. [Gathered from agency reports; photo by Unknown] The Maharashtra-based Samata Parva Pratishtan conferred the tenth annual Mahatma Jotiba Phule-Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Samata Ratna award on Delhi-based author Arundhati Roy on 10 May 2014, in…
Atget’s Corner – 136-140, 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,…
Atget’s Corner – 131-135, 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 Moment – Dyed Chicks, Okhla
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla met a vendor of dyed chicks in a congested street in Okhla. “These are not for eating,” he said. The babies were stuffed inside…
Netherfield Ball – Pix’s Exhibition Launch, Max Mueller Bhawan
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the launch of the photo exhibition of the 10th issue of ‘PIX: A Photography Quarterly’, titled Habitat. Hosted at the Goethe-Institut in Max Mueller…
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