A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 26th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Her eyes are closed. The Delhi Walla meets her at the Mausam Bhawan bus shelter on Lodhi Road. The woman has occupied a corner of…
Feasting and fasting in Ramzan. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The kaleji and korma are done. The khajla has been left to soak in milk. As her daughter-in-law Sumaiya slices onions for the salad, Rashida Qureshi, 50, adds rice to yakhni….
200 km from Delhi. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In the Shikargah, two derelict brick pavilions face each other across a fish-stocked pond observed by mango and jamun trees. “On this one sat the nawab sahib hunting for…
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The 26th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust, will take place on 6 August 2012. Venue: Dilli Gate, Daryaganj. Time:…
The decline of an institution. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] More than 50 years ago, on the first day of May, Jawarharlal Nehru flashed a smile (recorded by a grainy b&w photograph) as he flung open the doors…
The French way of life. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] If it were the French, and not the English, who had colonised us, we would have had bouillabaisse instead of fish ‘n’ chips served in our Colonial-era clubs….
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 25th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla saw this woman at Café Turtle in Khan Market, India’s most expensive shopping street. She was wearing a flower print dress. Her toe nails were polished…
Sweet soul food. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is the sweet food of Ramzan, the holy month when Muslims are required to fast till the sunset to cleanse their soul. In evenings, the decorated alleys in Delhi’s…
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