Photo Essay 2010 – In Search of Lost Time

In Search of the Lost Time

On the New Year’s eve.

[Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi]

In 2009, The Delhi Walla captured a few Delhiwallas while they were searching for the lost time.

There they were – in Connaught Place, Nizamuddin Basti, Chitli Qabar, GB Road, Matia Mahal, KG Marg, Khan Market, Chandni Chowk, Humayun’s Tomb, GB Road, ITO… They looked as if they had drifted back into an earlier stage of their life, now forever outgrown, never to return.

It was as if they had become indifferent to the existence of the Present. They had grown detached. They had transported themselves to some other city. In this nostalgic state, they seemed more vulnerable than a slaughter-house chicken. But then the consciousness flashed like a lightning and brought them up out of the blackness of the Past and placed them into where they were – in Connaught Place, Nizamuddin Basti, Chitli Qabar, GB Road, Matia Mahal, KG Marg, Khan Market, Chandni Chowk, Humayun’s Tomb, GB Road, ITO… And they were Delhiwallas again.

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

The World of GB Road

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of the Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

In Search of Lost Time

In search of lost time

City Lights

In search of lost time

Uneasy Lies the Head

In search of lost time

Miss Marple in New Delhi

In search of lost time

New Grief in Old Delhi