Live from Lhasa. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The way home may not be the way back. Tenzin Kunchok, 34, has never set foot in her homeland. “Maybe someday,” says Ms Kunchok, who co-runs a travel agency in…
The portrait of a marriage. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A lone customer steps in. Miles Davis is gently filling the hushed corners. The doorman stands erect at his post in a brown safari suit, and an elegant…
The 104th death. [Text and photo by Anu Chopra] Anu Chopra died of a major heart attack at her poker table in Ahmadabad, Gujarat. The evening had started brilliantly. Ms Chopra was winning one round after another. Eventually, she had…
The queen of the evening. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Nobody knows who is buried here. It is not grand, but it is extremely exquisite. And you will see no tourists, no lovers, so typical of Delhi’s more…
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] All of these costumed people are looking awe-inspiring. Some look like the photo spreads of Vogue Paris. The Delhi Walla is in the National Small Industries Corporation Grounds in…
Author Khushwant Singh’s longtime cook. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Chandan Singh, 85, has a kind of sculpted face that won’t look out of place in a room filled with death masks of Roman emperors who had lived…
Life in the Metro. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Metro commuters are great readers. Every person is spotted reading something or the other on the Smartphone. Sometimes, however, The Delhi Walla spots people actually reading a…
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Who are these people? How do they manage to look so cool in these clothes when we know we would look like clowns in them? The Delhi Walla went…
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla enters The Big Chill Cakery in Khan Market. The bakery’s glass window proudly proclaims–‘Estd. 2015’. Inside: carrot cake, banofee pie, frosted brownie, blueberry cake,…
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The former Prime Minister’s wife was spotted here, along with her women security guards in grey safari suits. The gracious Gursharan Kaur held her black handbag in the style of…
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