Netherfield Ball – The Alkazi Foundation’s Reception, Max Mueller Bhavan
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is that cold time of the year when all the beautiful people of the capital join the exodus to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. Delhi is cruelly dumped; its…
Netherfield Ball – Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s Book Reception, Raasta, Hauz Khas Village
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Hello boys, there she is. One evening The Delhi Walla spotted the famous 50 Dates girl at the launch of author Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s new novel, Split, at Raasta in…
Netherfield Ball – Amartya Sen’s Reception, India International Center
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was very unsettling. Nobody was air-kissing anybody. One evening The Delhi Walla went to the India International Center to hear Nobel laureate Amartya Sen talk on his new book,…
Netherfield Ball – Barkha Dutt’s Book Reception, The Taj Mahal Hotel
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was an exceedingly posh party. The capital’s cold toxic air smelled of expensive perfumes. Almost every important person was there except for the Prime Minister. He was not missed….
Netherfield Ball – Zac O’Yeah’s Book Reception, Swedish Ambassador’s Residence, Nyaya Marg
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] More than one person in the party declared that the man in the black hat looked like Sir Elton John. But the pop icon spoke English in a pucca Indian…
Netherfield Ball – Late Khushwant Singh’s Book Reception, The Park
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The former Prime Minister’s wife was spotted here, along with her women security guards in grey safari suits. The gracious Gursharan Kaur held her black handbag in the style of…
Netherfield Ball – Moin & Fatima’s Walima, Daryaganj
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla gatecrashed into the women-only zenana section of a wedding dinner held in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj. Moin Ahmad Alvi had married Syeda Seemver Fatima the night…
Netherfield Ball – Dietician Nishi Grover’s Book Reception, Ritu Kumar Store, Khan Market
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the launch of The Bridal Diet: Get Fit Not Fat This Festive Season, a book by dietician Nishi Grover at the Ritu Kumar Store…
Netherfield Ball – Author Avirook Sen Attacks Ellen Barry of The New York Times, India International Center
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] On a recent evening, The Delhi Walla went to the launch of Avirook Sen’s new non-fiction book, Aarushi: Anatomy of a Murder, at the India International Center. It turned out…
Netherfield Ball – Murad Ali Baig’s Book Reception, India International Center
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She looked like a forest fairy with large kohl-rimmed eyes and jasmine flowers in her hair. One rainy evening The Delhi Walla went to the launch of Murad Ali Baig’s…
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