The 40th death. [Text by Anurag Dixit; photo by Anjali Dixit] The Unseen He died Before that, he trembled And before that, he suffered He suffered Before that, he walked He walked and he travelled And before that, he explored…
The 39th death. [Text by Nishtha Gautam; photo by a French woman traveller] Nishtha Gautam died in a motor accident on the evening of 8 September. She was observing her weekly ritual of going to Agra, when her car rammed…
The new life of verse. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Fancy giving somebody 2 lakh rupees because you like their poetry? That’s exactly what happened this year at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The Delhi-based poet Arundhathi Subramaniam received…
The 38th death. [Text by Zoya Singh; photo by Vijay Singh] Zoya Singh always thought that she didn’t belong here. Even the words that she spoke carried in them some sense of oddness and misunderstanding that belonged to some other…
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 37th death. [Text by Pupps Roy; photo by Unknown] Seize the day. Indeed, the phrase “carpe diem” was coined for Pupps Roy, a migrant who came to New Delhi with steely determination and went on to climb the pinnacle…
The 36th death. [Text by Nammita Bhatia; photo by Sanskriti Mohta] Nammita (the ‘mm’ was her attempt at being different from all other Namitas out there) Bhatia, 52, finally died of heart failure during siesta yesterday, after dying a thousand…
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the inaugural ceremony of Jashn-e-Rekhta held in the Fountain Lawns of the India International Centre (IIC). The two-day Urdu literary festival was hosted by…
The male-female ratio. [By Gaurav Sood and Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla wants your help in learning about Delhi. We put forward a crowd-sourced study. The purpose: to estimate the proportion of males in the people on the streets….
The 35th death. [Text by Arunima Mazumdar; photo by Hindol Basu] On the day she was going to die, Arunima Mazumdar got up rather early to go for a morning walk. She never went for a morning walk in her…
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