Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this young man on a street corner in Sadar Bazar. His black topi is embroidered with gold threads and festooned with colored sequins. His maroon shirt has black stripes running along the sleeves. His black waist coat appears to...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this man standing outside the Golcha Cinema in Daryaganj, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the Walled City. His navy-blue overcoat was unbuttoned and revealed a longish black jacket. The cream trousers gave way to velvety-brown leather shoes. The...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this man on the Ring Road. He was wearing a blue salwar kurta. His dark-blue jacket was printed with hundreds of delicately shaped green leaves, while the flowers were in purple, red, yellow and white. Like the rest of...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla meets this woman at an apartment in Jamia Nagar, south Delhi. She is in a sharara, a pair of loose-pleated trousers usually worn by Muslim brides. Composed of floral designs in red and green, the sharara spreads around her legs...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this woman at Café Turtle in Khan Market, India’s most expensive shopping street. She was wearing a flower print dress. Her toe nails were polished pink; her brassier that partly slipped out from beneath the gown, too, was pink....
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this woman in Defense Colony Market, an upscale destination in the southern part of the city. She was wearing a tie dye frock. Her feet were tucked into off-white moccasins. Her eyes were hidden behind black Prada sunglasses. A...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this man one morning at Turkman Gate, one of the five surviving gateways built to protect the Mughal-era Shahjahanabad. He was in a white shirt, white pants, white topi, black waistcoat and black strapped sandals. His beard was white....
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this woman one rush hour morning at a bus stop in Aurobindo Marg. She was in a white sari; her hair too was white. A gold bracelet was on her right arm; a black bag on her left shoulder....
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this man in New Delhi railway station. He was wearing a white lungi, white vest, steel-grey blazer and a necklace of white plastic beads. He had light brown shoes and he hadn’t put on socks. His hair was white,...
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Searching for the stylish. The Delhi Walla saw this man in Bazaar Sitaram, a grocery and vegetable market in the Old Quarter. He was wearing a black cap, white kurta, white dhoti and black leather shoes. His glasses were perched high on the nose, partially hiding his...
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