City Hangout – Chairs, Sunder Nursery Park
Stuff for memories. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The sprawling Sunder Nursery Park is not only renowned for centuries-old edifices and expansive grassy grounds. This heritage landmark is now beginning to be known for something unusual in a…
City Hangout – Park Above Palika Bazar, Connaught Place
Springtime pleasures. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The sky is blue and puffed up with white clouds, the grass is lightly wet and people are looking less stressed. Delhi’s strangest and shortest season—from February to March—has begun. Neither…
City Hangout – Ridge Watching, Between Dhaula Kuan and Delhi Aerocity
Into the forest. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Not everybody strongly senses the presence of that amazing rocky jungle running through the very heart of Delhi. Known as the “Ridge”, it’s a part of the ancient Aravalli mountain…
City Hangout – Poetry Reading Benches, Mirza Ghalib’s Tomb
Place for poems. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Those good souls who love reading poems will sit down with a poetry anthology just about anywhere. Even while standing in a jam-packed Metro train. But where can one find…
City Hangout – Shatabdi Watching, New Delhi Railway Station
The thrill of travel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] That powerful sense of “going somewhere” is probably more palpable in a railway station than at an airport terminal. So many of us harassed Delhiites dream of escaping this…
City Hangout – Graveyard Watching, Jamia Millia Islamia Metro Station
The view of the dead. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So much hustle bustle but for what when we all have to end up dead? One can’t avoid struggling with such a feeling while going up the escalators…
City Hangout – Cats & Dogs, Bulbuli Khana
The art of co-existence. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s a very strange sight—dogs and cats living together serenely. But this is an everyday happening here in Old Delhi’s Bulbuli Khana. Now a black cat surfaces from the…
City Hangout – Back Garden, Safdarjung’s Tomb
Where peace comes dropping slow. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] No sound, but of birds. This particular garden paradise feels thousands of miles away from Delhi’s chaos though it’s tucked right in the city’s heart as part of…
City Hangout – Shah Music Center, Meena Bazar
The LP haven. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] All timeless legends are here — Begum Akhtar and The Beatles, the early Michael Jacksons and the early Amitabh Bachchans, the golden oldies of Barbara Streisand as well as rare…
City Hangout – Strangest Bench, Central Delhi
Away from the world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This may be the weirdest garden bench in all of Delhi. Instead of facing the finery of flowers it faces a wall here in central Delhi’s Bhishma Pitamah Marg….
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