City Life – Friends Outside Facebook, Shivji Park, Gurgaon
Offline Relationships. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is rare these days to come across folks who aren’t on Facebook. That’s why these three gentlemen sitting in a hair-cutting salon in Gurgaon’s Shivji Park seem so special. Perhaps…
City Life – Stray Dogs, Cyber City Corporate Complex
The cyber protectors. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The business towers are buzzing with busy folks. Nattily dressed office-goers are boldly entering the glass doors of these gleaming high-rises. The computer-coded ID cards around their necks are proudly…
City Life – Cable Art, Old Delhi
The wired aesthetics. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Guidebooks are silent about it. As though sightseers in Old Delhi would utterly fail to notice all those power cables dangling low, all over the place. These thick cables in…
City Life – A Hotel Room, Paharganj
The world inside a hotel room. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Sunlight is streaming in through the blue curtains. The double bed is crowded with four pillows. A small coffee table looks lonesome with two glasses. An ash…
City Life – Labourer’s Backpack, Central Delhi
A piece of working life. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It looks like some sort of backpack, but it isn’t. “It’s called a pithalla, and without question makes it so much easier to carry heavy loads on my…
City Life – Two Dogs in Love, Pahari Imli
The story of a couple. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Calling these two dogs “strays” is almost a mistake. Because they never stray far from each other. They hang out together and even sleep with each other, their…
City Life – Sabiha’s WhatsApp Circle, Old Delhi
A woman’s cellphone world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Like many women in Old Delhi, Sabiha Jhinjhanvi feels obliged to maintain a smoothly running household. And so she does. But then there’s her WhatsApp group, keeping her glued…
City Season – Delhi Winter, Around Town
Summer nostalgia. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Everybody whom I know in my city, Delhi, is looking happy. Their reason is the same. Winter season has begun. Just why do we Indians cherish winter so much when essentially…
City Life – A Woman’s Life, GB Road Red Light Area
Her life in her words. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] [As told to The Delhi Walla by a woman who wishes to remain anonymous] You will perhaps never invite me to visit your family. For I am one…
City Life – Listings for Living, Local EMU Trains
Local dreams. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Perhaps you too have noticed that the advertisements on those nice air-conditioned Metro coaches tend to involve big companies or big-budget movies? That can’t be said of informal advertising flourishing on…
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