City Landmark – Choudhary Kishan Lal Jutti Shop, Jacobpura, Gurgaon
Shoes of a different kind. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You won’t spot such a place in the fanciest of malls. Nor is it easy to find it elsewhere. A shoe shop in Gurgaon’s Jacobpura in the Greater…
City Landmark – The Commonwealth Bridge, Mathura Road
The pleasures of a white elephant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In our benighted city notable for ruins, this relatively new pedestrian bridge has also succumbed. Built to promote Delhi’s hosting of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the steel…
City Landmark – Janta Band, Naya Bazar
The music station. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The walls are plastered with photographs of men playing saxophones, though some are also in dancing costumes. A window is decked with a drum and a small trumpet. This cramped…
City Landmark – Mittal Store, Pragyakunj, Vasundhara
Hyperlocal wonder. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Nowadays just about anything can be purchased online or at huge shopping malls, right? No wonder that small family-owned shops are declining—with some notable exceptions. Mittal Store in suburban Ghaziabad (Pragyakunj,…
City Landmark – Loke Nath & Co, Connaught Place
CP’s early draft. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Once upon a time, it was a bustling tailoring establishment. Today, Loke Nath & Co is one of the most haunting showrooms in the colonial-era Connaught Place (CP). Entering the…
City Landmark – Old Mansion, Muneem Street, Gurgaon
An object of beauty. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A ramshackle relic from the past but so dream-like, this old mansion overlooks a lane in Gurgaon’s chaotic Sadar Bazar in the Greater Delhi Region. Muneem street is a…
City Landmark – Ahuja Tailor, Sadar Bazar, Gurgaon
A timeworn establishment. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s like the miniature museum of a dressmaker’s working life. Ahuja Tailors at the Sant Lal market corridor in Gurgaon’s Sadar Bazar in the Greater Delhi Region is sparsely populated…
City Landmark – The Gloomy Staircase, Near New Delhi Railway Station
When a piece of utilitarian infrastructure becomes poetic. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This fine old staircase leading to the overhead bridge in Central Delhi somehow seems steeped in a kind of melancholy. Here in early evening, a…
City Landmark – Goldsmith’s Workshop, Nai Basti, Gurgaon
Inside an old-fashioned world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In the so-called Millennium City, yet so far. This old-fashioned goldsmith’s workshop in Gurgaon’s Nai Basti in the Greater Delhi region. You get custom-made lockets, rings, and necklace pendants…
City Landmark – Cinema Halls, Around Town
City screens. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Minerva in Mori Gate, Paras in Nehru Place, Robin Talkies in Old Subzi Mandi, Filmistan in Tees Hazari and Radhu Palace in Laxmi Nagar. These are some of Delhi’s cinema theatres…
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