Of the golden age of movies. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Nobody was surprised. Regal’s closure was widely expected. Delhi’s colonial-era single-screen theatre that faces the park above Palika Bazaar Parking in Connaught Place finally shut down in…
The 142nd death. [Text by Priyanka Haldipur; photo by Gautam Sabba] Priyanka Haldipur, a corporate communications professional by day, and Jar Jar Binks by night, passed on a somewhat drizzly June morning. She died of cardiac arrest after reading a…
The best chai shack. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The only displeasing thing about Delhi’s pavement chai stalls is that the chai happens to be too milky, too sugary — to some of us at least. That problem…
The memorable instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He was sitting opposite her across a table. She was with iced cappuccino. He was with yogurt and muesli parfait. One afternoon The Delhi Walla was at Café Turtle in…
The gift of a brief season. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s like a valley of flowers, pink flowers The Delhi Walla means. And it is the most amazing sight in Delhi at this season. The two bougainvillea…
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She cuts quite a figure. A woman riding a cart all by herself — very often a little child is seen sitting on the cart…
A whole world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is where he died exactly three years ago. The Delhi Walla is at E-49, Khushwant Singh’s red-brick apartment at the colonial-era Sujan Singh Park in central Delhi. Privileged members…
The 141st death. [Text by Serene Kasim; photo by Avinash Kaur] All her life Serene Kasim was told that she always looked like she should be somewhere else. Hers was an unremarkable life marked by a remarkable sense of restless…
Women watching. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The beautiful people of the capital’s diplomatic world trickled in one after another. One evening The Delhi Walla attended the Italian Unification Celebration on the grassy grounds of the Italian embassy…
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