[Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Beautiful and ignored. The most beautiful of all buildings in the congested Nizamuddin Basti, it is also the most ignored. Most visitors to this 14th century village, named after a sufi saint, head straight to the saint’s shrine. A few are likely to notice Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s tomb that lies on the left of the principal street. Hidden behind this mausoleum is the marbled Chausanth Khamba (circa 1624), the rare Jehnagir-era monument in Delhi, so well-preserved that it does not look old. Built by Mirza Aziz Kokaltash, a foster brother of Emperor Akbar, Chaunsath Khamba is so named because 64 pillars are said to support its roof. You will, however, count only till 36. These