The digital dessert. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The hot season has gone but it is still possible to taste summer-time Delhi. Just grab a kulfi, the Indian-style ice cream that comes in flavours like pista, rose, cardamom…
The 103rd death. [Text by Maryann Taylor; photo by Aashish Chopra] Maryann Taylor died by choking on a red chili. The world ended in her little rented flat in Gurgaon. Ms Taylor was seated on her favourite mooda. She was…
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla visited the home of Jeet Thayil, the poet and novelist in his 50s, who lives with his partner, designer and photographer Akanksha Sharma, and cat,…
Friend of the tomb. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is true only up to a point. There is a lazy dog, indeed, but no brown fox. Instead, there…
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla spots historian Romila Thapar at the Faqirchand Bookstore in Delhi’s Khan Market. She is wearing a long grey kurta. Her hair is grey. Ms…
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His house feels like a hotel room that has just been cleaned by the housekeeping for the next guest. Not a single element is out of place. The laptop is…
Nehru’s last home. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A koel perched somewhere on one of the trees is calling out incessantly. A peacock emerges from behind a hedge, but disappears the next instant. The big house exudes an…
The 102nd death. [Text by Aishwarya Kandpal; photo by Unknown] My 45th death. November 19, 2055. Slurp. Sniff. Slurp. The huge Mishka sat next to a most demurely seated figure, head down on the grand piano, seemingly wondering why her…
A face in the fever. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The thinkable has happened. Muhammed Sabir, too, has got dengue. Mr Sabir is one of the thousands of Delhiwallas who have been hit by this fever in the…
Last thoughts. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was the morning of the Muslim festival of Eid ul Zuha, or Bakra Eid, in which animals are sacrificed to commemorate the legend of a devout man’s complete surrender to…
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