City Notes – The Connaught Place Re-builders
The people behind CP’s new look. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is the twilight hour in F Block, Connaught Place (CP). Amid apprehensions that the renovation work will not get over by October 3, the first day…
Campus Notepad – Fuchchas, Hindu College
On the morning of July 21, 2010, The Delhi Walla went to Hindu College in Delhi University.
Dateline Connaught Place – CP Goes Grassy
The greenification of the British-era district. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Is this the new look Connaught Place (CP)? The other day The Delhi Walla was walking in A Block, Inner Circle, expecting to see the usual sights…
Photo Essay – Sky Watching, Monsoon Season
The natural colors. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] In the monsoon, the most beautiful thing to look for are not the rains but the sky. After a heavy shower, the clouds scatter but the wetness lingers in the…
City Life – One Year of Legalised Gay Sex
Celebrations in Jantar Mantar. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is the new Delhi. It happened in public. Men kissed men. Women hugged women. And cops just watched. On the evening of July 2, 2010, a year after…
Sign of the Times – Terror Attack in Data Darbar, Lahore’s Sufi Shrine
Requiem for the dead. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] On the night of July 1, 2010, three suicide bombers struck in quick succession at the Sufi shrine of Data Ganj Baksh, or Data Darbar, in Lahore, Pakistan. 35…
Photo Essay – The Last of the Old-Fashioned Book Lovers
They will soon be gone. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] There is a land of Daryaganj and Paharganj, of Fact & Fiction and Mid Land, of dusty wooden shelves. Here in this pretty world of second hand bookstalls…
City Life – Admission Season, Delhi University
The rite of passage. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is the last hurdle before you become an adult. The admission process in Delhi University (DU) has its own rituals. It comes in summer. It demands long queues….
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