One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She appears to be sleeping. The Delhi Walla is with Mumtaz Begum. We are in a windowless room in Nizamuddin Basti, a village in central Delhi. Mumtaz Begum’s body is to be cleaned with multani mitti for ritual purification. Today is the burial. She died the day before yesterday. She was in her sixties. Mumtaz Begum lived alone in Chawri Bazaar, a Walled City neighbourhood. Her husband died years ago. Her children settled in another city. A religious woman, she regularly visited the dargah of sufi saint Hazrat Nizmauddin Auliya. Having a calm demeanour, Mumtaz Begum kept her feelings to herself. She rarely talked. Her expressive eyes conveyed her