The beautiful Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla met an extravagantly dressed cow on the busy Sri Aurobindo Marg. The animal, attired in pink velvet, had a marigold garland draped around 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 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 view from the Mughal-era mosque. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] “This is my life’s first vote for the Lok Sabha,” says 22-year-old Muhammad Udhav, “and I will give it to a new party.” Sitting in his family…
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 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, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds, courtyards, kitchens…
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is not very often that one comes across an unheard of but unusually extraordinary person — even in a city like Delhi that is…
The pink bougainvilleas. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is late afternoon. The Delhi Walla is walking down the quiet Chelmsford Road in central Delhi. The sky is clear blue. A homeless man is sleeping on the pavement….
William C. Carter on Marcel Proust. [By Mayank Austen Soofi; scholar’s photo by Nic Drogoul] How many people do you know who have actually read In Search of Lost Time in its entirety? Marcel Proust’s French novel, À La Recherche…
The mother’s courtyard. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Here you will meet Bibi Zulekha, the mother of Delhi’s 14th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. The shrine is known among the devotees as Mai Sahiba ki dargah. Bibi…
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