The bridges of a Delhi county. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Positioned five miles outside Delhi’s eastern limits, this redbrick railway bridge is in Ghaziabad, a district in Uttar Pradesh. Composed of a series of six 70-feet-wide arches,…
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Job at the BKS Marg subway in Connaught Place. Telling me his story, Job says he was a decent man who suffered…
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cold evening The Delhi Walla entered the home of a person who appeared to be living alone in this city. The house looked to Lodhi Road. It had no…
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 33rd meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
Beyond the french fries. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi’s roadside version of French fries is not eaten with the fingers. Cut into cubes and fried to a crisp, the potatoes in the aloo chaat come coated with…
The other side of the story. [By Jonas Moses-Lustiger] I am a Franco-German. I have lived in Delhi and have travelled throughout India. I speak Hindi and understand Bengali. I know all the Madhuri Dixit songs. I consider Satyajit Ray…
A very short film. A Little Anarky Films tells the story behind The Delhi Walla’s book Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District. Published by Viking Penguin, it is available in book stores and on shopping…
A bubble of serenity. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Its name means ‘The good destination’ in Arabic. The tranquil Khair ul Manzil masjid was built in 1561 by Maham Anga, the wet nurse and foster mother of Mughal…
The last great living qawwal. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In his eighties, Meraj Ahmed Nizami, the patriarch of Nizami Khusro Bandhu family, is one of the few classical qawwals left in India. He is one of Delhi’s…
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The 33rd meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust, was supposed to take place in GB Road red light area on…
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