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Bihar Diary-IV: Love and Loss

September 15, 2008
Bihar Diary-IV: Love and Loss

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Don’t forget Bihar’s human tragedy. I spent a week volunteering in relief efforts in flooded regions of Bihar. The abrupt shift in Kosi’s course in Bihar has flooded farm fields, submerged...
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9/13 – Memoirs of the Day After

September 15, 2008
9/13 – Memoirs of the Day After

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Making sense in the aftermath. India Gate, September 13th, 6.20 or so in the evening. I had decided to walk from Triveni Kala Academy towards Khan Market. India Gate...
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9/13 Photo Essay – Delhi in Grief

September 14, 2008
9/13 Photo Essay – Delhi in Grief

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Let the Capital cry. Ram Manohar Lohiya Aspatal. List out. Chandarbhan – 50/m. Anu Rani – 25/f. Neha Sharma – 22/f. Male injured – 36. Male expired – 3. Total injured....
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9/13 – Serial Bomb Blasts Rock Delhi

September 13, 2008
9/13 – Serial Bomb Blasts Rock Delhi

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. O Delhi, my Delhi. Two days after 9/11, at around half past six, I was browsing at Khan Market’s Bahri Booksellers when Mr M Singh, the bookshop assistant, cried out...
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Bihar Diary-III: Papa, I Don’t Wanna Go Home

September 13, 2008
Bihar Diary-III: Papa, I Don’t Wanna Go Home

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. The Delhi Walla in the flood-hit Bihar. I spent a week volunteering in relief efforts in flooded regions of Bihar. Beside drowning, disappearances and death, one of Bihar’s worst-ever floods has,...
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Bihar Diary-II: Misery in the Water World

September 13, 2008
Bihar Diary-II: Misery in the Water World

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. The Delhi Walla volunteers in flood hit Bihar. I spent a week volunteering in relief efforts in flooded regions of Bihar. I’m told that the people of Bihar, one of India’s...
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Bihar Diary-I: First Impressions

September 13, 2008
Bihar Diary-I: First Impressions

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. The Delhi Walla goes to volunteer in the flood hit region. These are jottings that I scribbled on the notepad during my drive to Purnia, the town closest to flooded regions...
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City Guide – Thank God It’s Ramzan

September 4, 2008
City Guide – Thank God It’s Ramzan

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Festive guide to Muslim Delhi. Trnnnnnnnnn. The siren is booming from Matia Mahal to Ballimaran to Jamia Nagar. It’s sunset, time to break the roza. Good evening Delhi. Good morning Jama...
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City Secret – Sanjay Akhara, Majnu ka Tila

August 30, 2008
City Secret – Sanjay Akhara, Majnu ka Tila

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. A special camp for wrestlers. It’s Adidas meets the akhara, dumbbell meets the dand-baithak and rugby meets Rohtak. The other day I stumbled into a settlement of wrestlers-in-training, just off the...
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Pretentious Gourmand – Diva, GK-II

August 29, 2008
Pretentious Gourmand – Diva, GK-II

GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries. Gluttony at Delhi’s priciest stand-alone restaurant. One rainy Friday night, early in August, 2008, when our Indian army was killing 15-year-old Kashmiris at Sri Nagar’s Idgah ground and when our fellow Indians were beating...
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