Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla meets this woman at an apartment in Jamia Nagar, south Delhi. She is in a sharara, a pair of loose-pleated trousers usually worn by Muslim brides….
A public notice. Penguin India is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red-Light District, by Mayank Austen Soofi. It is published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin. The first book on…
The ritual of sacrifice. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The goat was priced at Rs 7,000. It was purchased by the head of the family two days before Eid ul Zuha, or the feast of sacrifice, also known…
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 30th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
Kremlin on the Jumna. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A spectre is haunting Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) — the spectre of Indian dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism, as anyone in JNU will tell you, is a philosophical approach…
It will be published in America. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, is set to release some time in November 2012. Published…
A way of life. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] When was the last time you summoned the services of writing sheets, envelopes, and postage stamps to send a mail to a friend? How many years ago you last…
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla regrets to inform that the 30th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust, could not take…
Home is where the mart is. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] For some affluent Delhiites, posh Khan Market is like a second home. For a very, very few, Khan Market is home. But this will soon end. Consider…
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