Mission Delhi – Durga Prasad, Dwarka
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The saddest thing to be seen on city walls are posters of the disappeared, calling for help to bring them home. Such notices have a standard format. Obviously, it gives the name of…
Mission Delhi – Sanjay Kumar, Central Delhi
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] On this muggy morning he is sitting on his haunches, across the street from a crowded central Delhi chai stall, silently watching the passersby go about their lives. He’s dressed in colors —…
Mission Delhi – Cheeku & Peeku, Deer Park
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s very tough to make out who is who. Cheeku and Peeku are twins. Barely a month old. They don’t speak much. They stay together. And they seem to have recovered from the…
Mission Delhi – Yeashu Yuvraj, Sector 51
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He would hardly be at home, and now he always is. But his music is going on in spite of that. In fact, you have to watch the acapella video he recently conceptualized…
Mission Delhi – Vijay Kumar, Central Delhi
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He doesn’t have a house, he says. But he does have possessions. “I carry them all the time with me,” says Vijay Kumar. This morning he is sitting on the steps of a…
Mission Delhi – Ved Kumari Pahwa, Sector 52
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The coronavirus pandemic has temporarily put on hold the hyperactive lives of many folks, including of Ved Kumari Pahwa. “I was feeling especially frustrated during the lockdown… I was, and am still, very…
Mission Delhi – Munaf Alam, Chitli Qabar Chowk
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You’ll always find him alone. Always silent. And he is seen every evening at Old Delhi’s Chitli Qabar Chowk, which is otherwise so noisy, and so hyperactive, teeming with shoppers, idlers, hawkers, florists,…
Mission Delhi – Sunita Kushwaha, Wazirabad
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Her days are so hectic that she hasn’t really found the time to look back and trace the arc of her life. Therefore Sunita Kushwaha has never thought of herself as a feminist….
Mission Delhi – Muhammed Gulzar, Sunder Nursery
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s evening. He’s lying sprawled along a grassy slope, against a background of yellow flowers. The sky is pitch blue. The air is breezy. His head is resting against his hand. He is…
Mission Delhi – Ashu Prashar, IP Extension & South Point Mall
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is in his early 50s and wishes to write a book. He has already started preliminary work. “It will be a book on housekeeping ethics and style,” says Ashu Prashar, an assistant…
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