Mission Delhi – Pathik Kar, Oxford Bookstore Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - April 20, 2014April 21, 20143 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Keeping the book back on the shelf, the young waiter takes out his smartphone and says, “See my website. I launched it last year.” The Delhi Walla meets Pathik Kar at Oxford Bookstore in the Colonial-era Connaught Place. A staffer in the bookshop’s tea lounge, he is showing me his blog. “I want people to share their experiences with me,” says Mr Kar. “And through this blog I also want them to see the things I had to face in life.” As a regular to the tea lounge, I have always found Mr Kar polite, quick and cheery but it’s the first time that he is talking to me
Atget’s Corner – 56-60, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - April 20, 2014April 20, 20140 The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur's paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 25,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Each day five randomly picked pictures from this collection will be put up on the pages of this website. The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.” Here are Delhi photos numbered 56 to 60. 56. Near