The 160th death. [Text and photos by Mayank Pahuja] It was the evening before his birthday when Mayank Pahuja returned home with his bag full of new and used books–he lived with his stray pets and cabinets full of books….
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] At around 12,000 rupees every month, Kamal makes a living collecting scrap. There’s only one problem. Despite these earnings, Kamal is homeless. On this Sunday morning he awakens to plentiful…
The 159th death. [Text Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal; photos by Katie, Natalie Piper, Yadwinder Dhaliwal, Vrinda Garg] Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, aged 50, a poet, writer, visual art admirer who wrote poemy stories about displacement—displaced borders, displaced aggression, displaced grief, displaced ovaries,…
The mystery of the second grave. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Our city has seen invasions, civil wars, slaughter, riots and murders of kings, princes and ministers. Delhi neighbourhoods are littered with souvenirs of that past. Frustratingly, many…
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Her young son is named after the poet Kabir, and her daughter is christened April. Not because TS Eliot famously called that month the cruellest but because her naughty…
Old-time love. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] At first glance it’s nothing more than a cement platform beneath a tin shed in Jangpura Extension. But customers turn up at this shed in droves as Gyan deep-fries his famous…
Private treasures. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] On a cool central Delhi evening, The Delhi Walla is drinking tea with businessman Madhav Shriram and his wife, Divya, at their park magnificently enhanced by a Seeta Ashok tree. But…
The 158th death. [Text and photos sent by Triveni Shuklar] Life just ended when it finally got figured out. She once declared on Instagram that “Only Art, Cats and Shopping” truly made her happy. This was not entirely true because…
From a private collection. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She has personally witnessed all that horrid turns of life that newspaper headlines are usually made of — a murder in Mesoptamia, a body in the Gossington Hall library,…
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