City Moment – Two Women Bikers in Late Night Delhi, Bhishma Pitamah Marg
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A most unexpected thing happened on Central Delhi’s Bhishma Pitamah Marg one late night. Two young women stopped their bike abruptly on spotting The Delhi Walla‘s camera and demanded to…
City Moment – The Opera Singer’s Front Row Audience, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is summer and yet the air is not warm. The opera singer’s song is sneaking out of the door. Inside, her booming voice has flooded the whole world. She…
City Moment – The Sufi Feminist’s Rebellion, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Tomb
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The little girl was in a blue and white frock. Her hairpin was also blue. The flower-shaped rubber bands on her pigtails, too, were a shade of blue. One morning…
City Moment – Father to Son, Turkman Gate Bazaar
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The father is at work. The little son is playing in an adjoining alley. One morning The Delhi Walla sees the man and his boy in Delhi’s Turkman Gate Bazaar….
City Moment – A London Potter’s Delhi Adventure, Paharganj
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is hot and she is in white. One summer afternoon The Delhi Walla sees a foreign woman in the hotel district of Paharganj. The woman is walking down a…
City Moment – The Late Night Street Qawwali, Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Most of the street was immersed in darkness. But one corner was flooded with light. There, a makeshift stage had come up on the middle of the lane. A roof…
City Moment – The Solitary Man’s Private Prayer, Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Sufi Shrine
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His palms were folded together; his lips occasionally trembled. The young man stood at one side of the courtyard. It seemed he was praying. The Delhi Walla saw him one…
City Moment – The Empty Table’s Memories, Rue du Buisson Saint-Louis
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His dining table can accommodate at least six and yet he is seated alone at the head of the table. There are five more people in the house but they…
City Moment – Evening Bird Over The Barbed Wire, Venice Ghetto
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The wind is cool. It had rained earlier in the day. Now, some parts of the sky are completely covered with waves of clouds, and other parts are clear. The…
City Moment – The Artist Sits Beside His Biography, Venice Ghetto
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He looks like Walt Whitman from one angle and Leo Tolstoy from another. But the man with the white beard is Gilberto Visintin, a self-described vagabond artist. He has two…
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