City Moment – Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, Appetite German Bakery
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She is with a huge backpack. One hot afternoon The Delhi Walla comes across a young woman in a blue top, sitting alone in Appetite German Bakery, a café…
City Moment – Concert Hall Audience, Urs Mahal
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is evening. Purple fairy lights are strung along a row of flower pots. The musicians are seated on a makeshift stage. The main stage is occupied by a…
City Moment – Poet’s Pilgrim, Ghalib’s Tomb
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cold rainy afternoon The Delhi Walla saw an elderly man entering poet Mirza Ghalib’s tomb in Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. Ghalib lies buried within a marble cell in the…
City Moment – Two Daughters, Mayapuri
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The young woman in the blue saree was lifting bricks one by one from the ground, and keeping the whole pile on her head. The Delhi Walla meets the…
City Moment – Death of a Man, Pahari Gosht Wali
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The man had died last night. The Delhi Walla stood outside his home on the Walled City’s Gosht Wali Pahari, the hill of the meat. The man was washed,…
City Moment – Pandit Jasraj’s Sighting, Kamani Auditorium
A living legend. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended a classical music concert organized by the Department of Art and Culture, Delhi Government, in association with Punjabi Academy, in central Delhi’s Kamani Auditorium….
City Moment – Woman Reading a New Novel, Lodhi Garden
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla came across a woman in Lodhi Garden. She was sitting alone on a green bench. The setting sun was casting an orange glow on…
City Moment – The Tree Surveyors, Bhisham Pitamah Marg
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla came across three men on Bhisham Pitamah Marg. They were walking very slowly on the tree-lined pavement, stopping in front of each tree. They…
City Moment – Joshua’s Bar Mitzvah, Chabad House
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This does not happen often in Delhi. One afternoon The Delhi Walla attended Joshua’s bar mitzvah, the coming of age ritual that every Jewish boy undergoes on turning 13….
City Moment – The Last Great Qawwal, Hazrat Nizamuddin’s Dargah
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One of the few classical qawwals left in India, he is the last great living qawwal of Delhi. One morning in the courtyard of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s dargah, The…
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