Photo Essay – Delhi Feet, Around Town
The low life. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Hello feet. So, what do you plan to do today? Why not again go to Salim Bhai’s tea-stall in Kucha Chelan and have chai in one of his disgusting white…
Photo Essay – The Night of the Lights, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Dargah
Colors of Sufism. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Orange, purple and green. These were the colors of that magical night. The Delhi Walla was in the Dargah of Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. The shrine’s courtyard is always…
Photo Essay – The Brown Dog On a Stone Tomb, Mehrauli
Friend of the tomb. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is true only up to a point. There is a lazy dog, indeed, but no brown fox. Instead, there…
Photo Essay – Museum of Rejects, Vasundhara
A scrap dealer’s shed. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla enters the shed of scrap dealer Raju, who uses only one name. The decade-old shed is situated in an open ground in Vasundhara, a…
Photo Essay – The Modern Man, Around Town
Smartphone and the man. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The other evening The Delhi Walla saw the Modern Man. I was at the café in Ajay Guest House in Central Delhi’s Paharganj. The man was seated alone at…
Photo Essay – Foreign Faces, Appetite German Bakery
Atlas of the world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Each time I long to fly to a foreign land, I simply go to Appetite German Bakery in Main Bazaar, Paharganj. The locality is close to the New Delhi…
Photo Essay – KD’s Black Beard & Willie’s Rockstar Looks, The Book Shop, Khan Market & Jor Bagh
The golden era. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So dashing! Author William Dalrymple looks like a MTV rock star at this long-ago book signing in The Book Shop. The Delhi Walla is in possession of rare photographs that…
Photo Essay – God Bless Kathmandu, Nepal
That city, its people, its temples. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla was the on the 16th floor of a building when the earthquake tremors shook Delhi on April 25, 2015. Like everybody else on that…
Photo Essay – It’s Not Amazon.Com, Paharganj
A street-side book-corner. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com it’s not amazon.com…
Photo Essay – Premier Padmini, Defence Colony
The world of yesterday. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The old rusting car stood under a tree. Its grille was broken. The bonnet and the roof were covered with dry leaves. The windows were rolled up. The doors…
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