What does Barack's victory means to dark-skinned Delhi wallas? [Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] If America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. After breaking the racial barrier by becoming the first black president of the US, Barack Obama has created ripples from Denver to Dar-es-Salaam to Delhi, a city whose brown-skinned people are obsessed with 'fairness' creams. Ms Shefali, a 27-year-old communication trainer, who describes herself as having a "wheatish complexion", is thrilled that a "dark-skinned" man has captured the world's imagination. "You see, I'm the only one in my family who is dark," says she. "During childhood, my brother and sister would tease me as a 'black sheep', but now I can always shoot back by humming

Recording the dawn of Obama age. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] I was in Delhi's American Center when CNN declared Barack Obama's victory. Americans started crying. Although Delhi’s traffic mess can’t be sorted out, Obama or no Obama, I too shed a few tears. My hands, too, trembled while taking photographs. But now I wonder if I was crying because White House got its first black master or because I was jealous of US of A. He’s their Obama, not ours! Is this true? It's true! We won, we won Hush, Obama speaks Boo Palin Tears, happy tears

How Delhi's Democrats helped Obama become the US Prez. [By Carolyn Sauvage-Mar, the chair, Democrats Abroad-India. She was elected Delegate for Obama to the Democratic National Convention; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] Barack Obama is the next American President. Wow. We Democrats in Delhi, along with the rest of their counterparts in India and the US, were seriously optimistic about electing Barack Obama to be our next President. However, having been in the opposition for eight long years, we had gotten used to… well, losing. During the months of campaigning, a friend of mine looked me in the eye and said, “You realise that we’re going to win, right?” I actually hadn’t ever thought that thought, consciously, until he said it out loud. We

The Delhi walla's pretension in writing makes me want to lodge a bullet in his balls - Blogger Nimpipi, the woodchuck chucks GO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.A week in the life of the beast.[Text by Mayank Austen Soofi; picture taken in the Delhi zoo by Kamal Kishore]Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga has dedicated his debut novel The White Tiger to the people of New Delhi. Since the announcement, the white tiger's cage in Delhi zoo has been drawing unprecedented crowd.15/10/2008From the Desk of: 'The White Tiger' A Thinking Beast,Mathura Road (just off Purana Qila), New Delhi, India.Friday: Grrrrr. People of New Delhi! My paw! What about me? That brown guy names his novel after me but