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…
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 34th death. [Text by Phebe Bay; photo by Marcel Sim] Born to a middle-class couple, Phebe Bay did moderately well, although she was not exceptional. As a student, for instance, she was neither the best in her classroom, nor…
The 33rd death. [Text by Saudamini Jain; photo by Pallavi Gurtoo] Saudamini Jain, a journalist and writer, died in her sleep, precisely the way she would have liked to. Ironically, death was perhaps the only thing that went according to…
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and top photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] She is from Kashmir, but her real homeland is Page 3. A regular on the party pages of Delhi’s newspaper supplements, Ratan Kaul is…
The 32nd death. [Text by Irfan Husain; photo by Daisy Bunn] Columnist Irfan Husain shuffled off these mortal coils after an extended bout of moribundity. His last words were: “Too much temptation; not enough time.” His long life – too…
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