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City Notice – Electric Moon Screening, India Habitat Center

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May 19, 2013
Electric Moon

Last chance to see a classic. A comi-tragedy, it’s a cult classic. Directed by Pradip Krishen, the author of Trees of Delhi, and scripted by Arundhati Roy, the author of The God of Small Things, the 1992 film Electric Moon will be screened on May 20 at India Habitat Center...
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City Special – The Delhi Walla on BBC Radio 4

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May 17, 2013
BBC

Listen to this. BBC Radio 4 interviewed The Delhi Walla. The Bristol-based BBC presenter Chris Ledgard came to Delhi to record an episode of his weekly show Word of Mouth. The theme: Language and Politics in India. Mr Ledgard talked to newspaper editors, professors, authors and civil servants, and he...
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Delhi’s Bandaged Moments – C.P. Cavafy, Rail Bhawan

May 5, 2013
Cavafy's boys

Poetry in the city. The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet C.P. Cavafy at his office in Rail Bhawan, the headquarters of the Indian Railways in Central Delhi. At the age of twenty nine Mr Cavafy took up an appointment as special clerk in the Third Circle...
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City List – Mughal Kings, First to Last

April 2, 2013
Zafar

Delhi by list. The Mughal dynasty gave 19 rulers to Hindustan. It was the fifth, Shah Jahan, who established his capital in Delhi. The Delhi Walla gives you the entire list of Mughal rulers, from Babur, the first Mughal, to Zafar, the last. 1. Babur b. 1483, r. 1526-1530 2....
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Delhi’s Bandaged Moments – Shahwar Kibria, South Extension-I

March 11, 2013
Delhi’s Bandaged Moments

Poetry in the city. The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Shahwar Kibria outside the showrooms of South Extension-I market. In her early 20s, she works as an editor in a publishing firm. Ms Kibria grew up in Calcutta. Her beloved poets are Jalaluddin Rumi, Charles Baudelaire,...
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City Sighting – Arundhati Roy, India Islamic Centre

March 4, 2013
Arundhati Roy Sighting

The leather woman. One evening The Delhi Walla sighted his most beloved Delhiite – author Arundhati Roy. She was in a black leather jacket and black Levi jeans. Ms Roy was at the India Islamic Center, Lodhi Road. She was to speak on Spontaneous Protests and Complicit...
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Delhi’s Bandaged Moments – Anna Akhmatova, Tihar Jail

February 14, 2013
Anna Akhmatova

Poetry in the city. The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Anna Akhmatova outside the highly-secured boundary wall of Tihar Jail in West Delhi. In her late 20s, Ms Akhmatova is wearing a white shawl. A woman of somewhat severe features, she is looking immensely sad. Gesturing...
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City Anniversary – Jane Austen Club Society, Somewhere in Delhi

January 29, 2013
Jane Austen

Celebrating Pride & Prejudice. Such a delightful day. On January 29 1813, Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra to tell her the good news that Pride and Prejudice had been published. The Delhi Walla is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Readers,...
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Delhi’s Bandaged Moments – Manika Dhama, Connaught Place

January 10, 2013
Delhi’s Bandaged Moments

Poetry in the city. The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Manika Dhama in the Outer Circle of the Colonial-era Connaught Place. In her late 20s, Ms Dhama is an investment consultant in a Gurgaon-based real-estate firm. A resident of Noida, she runs the blog framed by...
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Delhi’s Bandaged Moments – The Girl in the Bus, Munirika

December 30, 2012
Delhi's Bandaged Moment

Poetry in the city. This poem is by The Delhi Walla. Which movie did she see on Sunday evening? In Jantar Mantar. To a fellow Delhiwalla, ‘Sir, are you for or against rape?’ Newspapers say she was returning home after watching a film in Select Citywalk, She was with a friend. Cutting across party...
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