Mission Delhi – Raju Karigar, Sadar Bazar
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In this season of losses, it is just another loss. And yet it has to be recorded. Gurgaon’s Sadar Bazar in the Greater Delhi Region…
Mission Delhi – Tarun Tahiliani, Sector 23
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] There is nothing exceptional about the sunrise views during these lockdown days. And yet, he is seeing them with new eyes. And perhaps also with…
Mission Delhi – Rakesh, Central Delhi
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A man without a house. How could he possibly stay at home, like all of us citizens were repeatedly instructed to do during the beginning…
Mission Delhi – Summer, Sector 45
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s difficult to say if Summer is aware that the world is passing through a tectonic shift due to the coronavirus pandemic. Summer’s vocabulary is…
Mission Delhi – Dharmender Kumar Verma, Kadipur Chowk
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You might think of Gurgaon in the Greater Delhi Region, with its many malls and high-rises, as the Millenium City. But he calls it a…
Mission Delhi – Saumya Pande, Noida
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The coronavirus-triggered closure of the world is doing different things to different people. Many citizens are rushing back to their distant homes in great difficulties….
Mission Delhi – Rajesh, Around Town
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He has been driving an auto rickshaw through the smoggy roads of Delhi for 35 years. But this evening, he says he has been driving…
Mission Delhi – Om Prakash Ram, Sector 43, Gurgaon
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Om Prakash Ram, 35, is feeling lonely these days. Not because he lives alone in a small jhuggi — a jhuggi that he built for…
Mission Delhi – Rajesh Tiwari, Matia Mahal
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Life has changed for so many of us with the coronavirus pandemic. But for at least a few others, its rhythms continue to be the…
Mission Delhi – Kashi Ram, Nehru Place
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] With his dhoti, turban, and weather-beaten slip-on shoes, he looks like a farmer walking through his village field, far away in the heart of Indian…
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