Delhi to Tokyo The four-volume The Delhi Walla series have become a constant fixture in Delhi’s bookstores. Being its author and photographer, I like to believe that they are considered as a serious attempt to interpret the city. So, it’s very hurtful when some people I know dismiss the volumes...
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Despite being bestsellers, most newspapers and magazines ignored The Delhi Walla books. Corrupt as India media is, the editors and book beat reporters are always plugging books of friends or of authors who can afford the services of public relation firms. So, if you only read The Times of India, or...
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Chatting on books, blogging and life in Delhi. The Delhi Walla-Portraits is the fourth and final volume in a series of books that brings together the best of writer-photographer Mayank Austen Soofi’s website The Delhi Walla. Since 2007, Soofi’s online musings and pictures have covered the many...
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The final volume of The Delhi Walla series. The fourth and final volume in The Delhi Walla series – Portraits – reached the bookstores in late June, 2011. While working on this book, I struggled with the following curiosities: How does a city shape the lives of...
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The fourth and the final volume. On the evening of June 6, 2011, The Delhi Walla received a small parcel from HarperCollins India. It was the fourth and final volume of The Delhi Walla series of books. Portraits, hot off the press. The earlier three volumes –...
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Interesting and informative guides. Delhi, the capital of world’s largest democracy, is perceived differently by different people. You can hate it, love it but you cannot ignore it. The city has been the hot seat right from the times of the epic Mahabharat. Legend has it that Indraprastha, the capital...
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They are from the heart. A traveller. A photographer. A book lover. And a guide to Delhi. He walks all around the city. Alone, late in the night, he writes what he had experienced from dawn to dusk. He enjoys every moment, every food, and every place. He lives Delhi through...
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Good snacks, good talk. The book launch for The Delhi Walla series was a success. The venue was packed. People laughed and clapped. And Arundhati Roy came! This is what I said: Hello, and thank you for coming. Since I’m a writer, I’ve...
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A bestselling author’s verdict. They say one of the greatest simple joys you can experience is to become a tourist in your own city. Just two books have actually made me do that – the first is William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns – and the second is Mayank Austen Soofi’s The...
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Reflections at the Midland bookstore, South Extension-I. The other day I met a friend in Lodhi Garden. She remarked on my unkempt hair. I said, “Who cares! I’m a bloody author of four books!” That same evening I went to the Midland bookstore in South Extension-I. I’m...
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