City Walk – Changing Architecture, Old Delhi
Changing Walled City. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is as if these patches of sky could no longer hold together. As if they had given up, falling down here and there over the city. This is one…
City Walk – Babar Road, Central Delhi
Into a bubble. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The tree is tall, wide and choked with green leaves. You can spend a long time surveying its immense proportions consisting of dozens of branches. The tree gets even more…
City Walk – Winter Stroll, Hauz Khas Lake
Sunset boulevard. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The receding sun has stained the sky with tints of red. And not only the sky — it looks like the lake’s waters, too, are on fire. Yet the air is…
City Walk – Chhanhirai Gali, Near Roshanpura
Lane to another time. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is a world of yesterday. Which is very rare to land into in a metropolis that is also known as the Millennium City. This narrow lane near Gurgaon’s…
City Walk – Golf Course Road, Gurgaon
Nuances of disparity. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] High-rises so tall that sometimes clouds waft around the upper floor windows. In malls, you hear a babble of foreign accents. Sleek coaches of the Rapid Metro show up frequently…
City Walk – Red Fort’s Backside, Ring Road
A different perspective. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Great stories, they say, can also be told backwards, or sideways. Like the Red Fort. You must have seen the Mughal-era monument in all its red glory—the sandstone ramparts spread…
City Walk – Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, Central Delhi
On emperor’s path. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It no longer needs to be known as Delhi’s Fleet Street, the London road famous for newspaper offices. At least some newspapers that were once located here have wholly or…
City Walk – Disappearing Bungalows, Green Park
Going with the wind. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A gate just big enough for a car to pass through. Beyond it, a small lawn on the side, not fanatically trimmed. And then the single-storey house, not modern-looking,…
City Walk – Former Stone Quarry, Gurgaon-Faridabad Road
Into the wild. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is a city walk that gives a sense of the land our city stands on. Let’s start with the mysterious wall crisscrossing through what looks like a jungle. It…
City Walk – Post-Lockdown Lodhi Road, Central Delhi
Notes from a pandemic-era stroll. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Two masked men are sitting on the dusty footpath, by the traffic light, with sketch pads on their laps. They are drawing Safdarjung’s Tomb, standing just across the…
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