The hidden world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Hardly surprising, is it, that the Smart Set has a soft spot for Meharchand Market. Who wouldn’t be tempted by those captivating silver bracelets and handcrafted artifacts, adding a little…
The 186th death. [Text and photos sent by Srajan Bhatnagar] As the Metro carriage drew into the shed, retired for the night, the cleaners saw the dead body of 23 year old Srajan Bhatnagar, still standing, still holding the overhead…
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla spots a foreign woman sitting in a Central Delhi café. She is dressed in a long gown, blue ear danglers and a bucket hat. Her…
Travelling statues. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Public art in Delhi sometimes find me scratching the head. The sculptures at the Mandi House crossing are so abstract that The Delhi Walla just don’t get them. Equally puzzling are…
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla kinda knows what diplomats do for a living. But what happens after they retire? In the case of TCA Raghavan, he’s managed to write two books so…
The 185th death. [Text and photos sent by Aksa Ashraf] Death finally took Aksa Ashraf. Nobody knew how? She endured herself as much as she could and survived through and through at many phases of being herself. She had died…
An unusual adaptation. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Over The Delhi Walla‘s many expeditions into Delhi drawing rooms, not an evening passes without having to witness yet another heated debate on the relative merits of Delhi biryani versus…
The 184th death. [Text and photos sent by Kanchana Amilani] On 3.3.2018 Kanchana Amilani was accidentally electrocuted. Her niece discovered the body lying on the stomach in a small room of Kanchana’s Kaluthara North home. The book “My Family and…
Life on the summit. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Winters in Delhi approximate the life of a butterfly. The moment you’ve developed a working relationship with woolens and heaters, it’s all over. This is more or less how…
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