City Moment – The Just People, Netaji Subhash Marg Moments by The Delhi Walla - January 30, 2011January 30, 20110 The beautiful Delhi instant. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla was one morning… no, it was not just any morning. It was the anniversary of the day when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fundamentalist in Delhi in 1948. So, on the morning of 30 January, The Delhi Walla was walking in Netaji Subhash Marg, near Golcha Cinema, when I saw a procession approaching towards the Dilli Gate ruin. The women and men, about a hundred in number, were carrying flags, banners and placards. They were thumping their fists into the air, and shouting slogans, like “Free Dr Binayak Sen.” In December 2010, Dr Sen, the 59-year-old health worker and rights activist, was sentenced to life imprisonment by
Jaipur Diary – The Sexed-Up Lit Fest City Parties by The Delhi Walla - January 30, 2011January 18, 20173 It's not about books. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] High heels, Prada bags, Charles & Keith ankle boots, Sula wine, exposed cleavages and a private jet. Lit events are the new cool for the beautiful people, if the 6th Jaipur Literature Festival is an indicator. It was the place to see and be seen at. There was music, kisses, vodka, and, yes, it didn’t harm to have Pamuk as a prop. From now on, the fashion weeks of Delhi and Mumbai will be merely for the wannabes. What The Delhi Walla saw was a Woodstock of the internationally accented and expensively groomed. The Page 3 People, aka P3P, arrived in Diggi Palace, the festival venue, in the form of Ayesha Thapar,