Hauz Khas Series – A House in the Village, Chapter 3
Life in Delhi’s prettiest neighbourhood. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Late September morning. The shadows are cold. I enter into a part of the Hauz Khas ruins that is not frequented by tourists. May be they are here….
City Life – Family Album, Old Delhi
The new Old Delhi. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In a house on Pahari Rajaan hill, stairs lead to a courtyard. Here a new flight of stairs passes a kitchen and leads to another courtyard. More stairs, another…
INFIDELITIES@The Delhi Walla – A Well-built Dusky MBA Student Seeks a Female
Make your life smart and sexy. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] I’m a 21 year old man who shuttles between Delhi and Bombay. A science graduate, I’m in the 2nd year of my MBA from a top B-school. I like…
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Bazaar Sitaram
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla saw this man in Bazaar Sitaram, a grocery and vegetable market in the Old Quarter. He was wearing a black cap, white kurta, white dhoti and…
City Library – Ira Pande’s Books, Noida
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One rainy afternoon, The Delhi Walla knocked at the door of writer and editor Ira Pande. Now 60, Mrs Pande shares her ground floor apartment in Sector 93, Noida, a…
City Guide – Mao on Surviving Delhi
China’s God on Delhi. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] The news from Delhi is bad. On September 2011, a bomb blast killed 12 people outside the Delhi High Court, close to the India Gate monument. The same night…
INFIDELITIES@The Delhi Walla – Poet-Philosopher Male Seeks a Female with Fantasies
Make your life smart and sexy. [Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] I am 27-year-old male in Delhi, originally from Bangalore. I like reading, poetry, philosophy, movies and music. Love writing, have a novel that is half-finished and will be ready…
The Biographical Dictionary of Delhi – Joseph Allen Stein, b. Omaha, 1912-2001
The builder of Steinabad. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is walking down Joseph Stein Lane, the only road in Delhi named after an architect. This is the heart of “Steinabad”, the nickname given to Lodhi…
City Relationships – INFIDELITIES @ The Delhi Walla
Make your life smart and sexy. Are you bright? Have you got lots of depth? Do you hope to read Marcel Proust one day? Do you jog? Do you have Ghalib and Shakespeare? Do you have a kind heart? Can…
City Hangout – Spell & Bound, SDA Market
Kafka with kebabs. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Those who love their mutton rolls and masala milk may like Spell & Bound at the SDA Market in south Delhi. Opened in May 2011, the bookshop and café has…
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