Woman convicted for adam-teasing. A roadside Juliet, who was arrested for using obscene language and making indecent gestures towards two plain-clothed policemen during an anti-adam-teasing drive, has been held guilty of outraging the modesty of men by a Delhi court. Metropolitan magistrate Shakti Kapoor convicted Sarojini Nagar...
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The way we were. “A photograph never grows old,” said Albert Einstein. “You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same.” But the way we look at...
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Evening dreams. One evening The Delhi Walla was walking in the garden outside the ticket window of Humayun’s Tomb. The grass was covered with dry leaves. The traffic sounds of Mathura Road were soaring above towards the blue-black sky and gradually fading into a low hum. A...
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The hairy portraits. The Delhi Walla is a keen devotee of the beards of Delhiwallas. Some men, thanks to their long flowing beards, look like spiritual brothers of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. A few beards look as grey and melancholic as that of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the...
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Life’s like that. The Delhi Walla sees this woman each time he walks down this street. She is always sitting or lying on this stretch of the pavement. Sometimes the area’s dogs share her space. The lady has blue slippers. Her home has no privacy, and I...
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Delhi’s lucky women. Is Delhi India’s rape capital? In December 2012, a 23-year-old girl was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died within two weeks. According to a report in BBC, 572 rapes were reported in Delhi in 2011. More than...
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Tragedy in the morning. The cold morning was masked in a gray fog of smoke that leapt out of the 15-storey Himalaya House, an office-complex on Kasturba Gandhi Marg, an avenue in Central Delhi’s Connaught Place. The building caught fire earlier in the morning. It had started...
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The wall’s account. They come in one by one. These silent Delhi men. From morning to midnight. Some are tall with fierce eyes. Some are short. Some are fat. Some are Hindus. Some are Sikhs. There are Muslims, too. I have also suffered white men. All these...
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A way of life. When was the last time you summoned the services of writing sheets, envelopes, and postage stamps to send a mail to a friend? How many years ago you last dropped a letter into a letterbox? One morning The Delhi Walla witnessed a rare...
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Delhi’s red light district. The Delhi Walla has just finished writing a non-fiction book on GB Road, the city’s red light district. The hardbound edition of Nobody Can Love You More will be published by Penguin India in November 2012. After spending four years in the area,...
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