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.The dilemma of free speech on the internet.[By Jess Sikand; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]In August, 2009, I made an unpopular comment on the topic of expats, Delhi and attitudes to poverty in an article published on The Delhi Walla – Why Scorn Delhi Expats. As the moderator of comments, the site’s blogger, Mayank Austen Soofi, duly published it. I had taken care not to attack anyone personally, or viciously. However, Mr Soofi allowed his other readers to make personal attacks against me. While it were other people who made

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.Capturing the re-rise of a Delhi landmark.[Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi]On October 15th, 1764, Edward Gibbon sat amidst the ruins in Rome, the sight evoked grandeur, he wrote a six-volume classic. In the light of such an historic incident, it is Delhi’s loss that Mr Gibbon did not live long to witness the ruins of the dilapidated inner circle of Connaught Place (CP). He could have written another masterpiece.However, one rainy September morning in 2009, The Delhi Walla took a walk there. In the middle of a major

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.Going foodless in Ramzan.[Text by Sadia Dehlvi; pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi]During Ramzan, the month when Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammad, we Muslims are required to keep a fast. That is, we have to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.As a child, in my old house in Sardar Patel Marg, I was not expected to fast and there was no bar on feasting. The kitchen was stocked with pheniyan, khajla, khajoor and other Ramzan specific delicacies for sehri, the pre-dawn meal, and for iftaar,

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.The XXX fantasies.[Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]Tucked next to Ajmeri Gate, BP Road attracts Delhi’s booklovers starving for intellectual conversations with the opposite sex and willing to pay for it. On the face of it, BP Road looks no different from Khan Market’s front lane. Parking is a mess; the lane has a familiar-looking row of groceries selling imported sauerkraut. But you just look for bookstores. While you see pirated pulp thrillers stacked everywhere, everyone knows that these stores are just a front for the ‘trade’. Book-ies would