City Sighting – Morris Minor, Jor Bagh
A ‘purple vomit’. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla came face-to-face with a Morris Minor. It stood on a quiet lane in central Delhi’s tree-lined Jor Bagh. The Wikipedia describes the aforementioned vehicle as…
City Food – The Lunchbox, Around Town
The love of the packed meal. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Your lunchbox is a guide to the geography of your soul. Take Delhi-based Babita, who goes by one name. The 23-year-old vivacious girl is a cashier at…
City List – 22 Sufis, Around Town
Delhi by list. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi’s first Sufi establishment is said to be that of Khwaja Qutubbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki, the 14th century ascetic. He was the disciple and spiritual successor of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of…
Reema Sahay’s Review – On Nobody Can Love You More
Life in a red light district. [By readers on Goodreads] Critic Reema Sahay discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, in the social-cataloging website Good Reads. Click here to…
Mission Delhi – Shanti Devi, Hauz Khas Village
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Many people, including the gardeners of the adjacent Deer Park, are addicted to her ginger-flavoured chai. Indeed, Shanti Devi’s tea is one of the best…
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Keerti Singh, Jamia Millia Islamia
The Proustian self-introspection. [By The Delhi Proustians] The Proust Questionnaire represents a form of interview that owes its structure to answers given by French novelist Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time, at two birthday parties that…
City Food – Julia Child Makes Pho in BK Dutt Colony
The great chef’s life in Delhi. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Meet the Julia Child of BK Dutt Colony, a quiet middle-class neighbourhood in central Delhi, next-door to the posh Jor Bagh. In her 30s, writer Victoria Burrows…
The Delhi Walla Special – Pride & Prejudice, Part II
The Jane Austen classic revisited. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Once upon a time in distant wet England, there lived a family of five daughters, each of them waiting to meet a single man in possession of a…
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Tilak Nagar
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla saw this young man on a street in the western neighbourhood of Tilak Nagar. He was selling apples. The sleeves of his white shirt were rolled…
City Monument – Restored Ruin, Humayun’s Tomb
A silver lining. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The restoration work on the Mughal emperor Humayun’s tomb in Delhi ended in September 2013. “It took us six years and 200,000 man-days of painstaking work by craftsmen,” says Ratish…
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