The Delhi Walla Books – They Are Not Enough
Reflections at the Midland bookstore, South Extension-I. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] 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…
The Delhi Walla Books – They Are Bestsellers
5,000 copies sold. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla has got company. The other evening US President Barack Obama was sitting beside me. I mean Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars was placed next to my books, The…
From the Press – On The Delhi Walla Books
They are loving it. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla books are being talked about and not just by The Delhi Walla. The weekend edition of Mint, India’s leading business daily, said: “The Delhi Walla blog’s mix of gentle…
Letter from Islamabad – On the Delhi Walla Books
A Pakistani artist introduces the The Delhi Walla books. [By Faiza A Khan] Our own self is composed of some very vital elements, like our physical body, our soul, and our minds packed with diverse thoughts. This is our own…
Letter from Gurgaon – On The Delhi Walla Books
Best-selling novelist introduces The Delhi Walla books. [By Advaita Kala] When my family moved to Delhi in the early nineties, I was not in the least pleased. With two years to go before I finished school, I had made up…
City Diary – The Delhi Walla Books and Some Unlucky Delhiwallas
It’s a beautiful and ugly city. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Life changes in a week. On September 21, 2010, The Delhi Walla was walking on the Lodhi Road pavement with Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the…
City Moment – The Delhi Walla Books, Around Town
The beautiful Delhi instant. [Text by Mayank Austen Soofi; pictures by Marina Solveig Bang] One rainy evening, The Delhi Walla was at the lobby of The Claridges, Aurangzeb Road. There I got the first copies of my four-volume series on…
City Diary – The Delhi Walla Books
Excited and anxious. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The bookmarks have come. The books can’t be far behind. On 21 September, The Delhi Walla received an e-mail from his editor at HarperCollins India, which is publishing his first books, a series…
Letter from Michigan – On The Delhi Walla Books
An American book lover introduces The Delhi Walla’s books. [By Richard Weiderman] A firangi can never be a Delhiwalla. To qualify one has to have been born in Delhi or been brought up and educated there. He must have assimilated…
Letter from Stanford University – On The Delhi Walla Books
A US-based scholar introduces The Delhi Walla’s books. [By Gaurav Sood; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] In Delhi, one is surrounded by history, but oblivious of it. Worn stone and brick arches with peeling MCD (Municipal Council of Delhi) plaster,…
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