Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla arranged to meet American poet Elizabeth Bishop at the Fact & Fiction Booksellers in South Delhi’s Basant Lok Market. The city’s most eclectic bookshop, Fact &…
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,…
The 99th death. [Text by Neha Mathur; photo by “Husband”] As irony would have it, a hailstorm ravaged the night when Neha Mathur’s soul departed for another world, just like the day she was born. A single spaghetti dangled from…
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla enters the Fact & Fiction Booksellers in Basant Lok Market. The shop is empty. There are no customers. There aren’t even many books. Almost…
The 98th death. [Text by Sohini Pal; photo by Reeti Roy] Well-known children’s author Sohini Pal was found dead this morning in her tiny bungalow in Landour, a hill town near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand. The person who discovered her…
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One late morning The Delhi Walla enters the home of French filmmaker Thomas Ellis. He lives in the exclusive Sujan Singh Park Apartments in Central Delhi. Raised in the 1940s,…
The book lover’s commute. [Text by Manika Dhama; photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] At 1,200 pages in tiny ant-lettering, it was an unwieldy choice for Metro commute reading. More than once during the course of the month I spent reading…
The last days of the avenue. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Speeding cars are making gentle breezy sounds. Somewhere a peacock is crying out. While the soft sun of the August evening is filling Aurangzeb Road with golden…
The 97th death. [By Barkha Gupta] She was gone too soon. Given the name of ‘bakra’ (goat) by her sisterly amigo after her jocular and witty personification, Barkha Gupta departs today towards eternity with the ticket of heaven. Nothing could…
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] On a recent evening, The Delhi Walla went to the launch of Avirook Sen’s new non-fiction book, Aarushi: Anatomy of a Murder, at the India International Center. It turned out…
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