The 255th death. [By Aysha Naurein] Aysha Naurein was a dreamer. She saw big, wild dreams, the kind that people would consider over-ambitious and unrealistic if she spoke about it. So she didn’t. She feared living an ordinary life, not…
Here lie the unknown. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It has been raining on and off for the past few days, and the graves have gone mossy. The stoney ground is green and slippery too. But this evening,…
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is in his early 50s and wishes to write a book. He has already started preliminary work. “It will be a book on housekeeping ethics and style,” says Ashu Prashar, an assistant…
Homecoming dress. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Waste collector Raju’s bulging sack is huge. “It has all the trash I have collected today,” he says. Though it is only early morning in this market lane, it is already…
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Manami Chakravorty] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see things which could have been happening right now. This could have been a candle light dinner, or maybe World War…
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Kamna] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see myself as a conceptual thinker who learn the concepts that are presented but also want to know the related concepts that…
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Tanvi Akhauri] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see the Dilli of my dreams that once was, caught in the time snag of olden days I never lived, only…
Our corona diary. [Text and photo by Anandi Mishra] I close my eyes in self-isolation from corona and I see a green-blue sea stretch out. I take baby steps into the waterscape. But the water with its violent force gushes…
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The family is cutting costs wherever it can. Devendra Kumar no longer “drinks a peg or two” and his school-going sons have stopped demanding treats of samosas and burgers. “As for my Mrs,…
An author’s life. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] “I want to be buried here,” said Sadia Dehlvi, the author of Sufism: The Heart of Islam, The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi and Jasmine & Jinns: Memories and Recipes…
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