Netherfield Ball – Rakhshanda Jalil’s Book Launch, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts City Parties by The Delhi Walla - May 1, 2014May 2, 20141 The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the launch of Rakhshanda Jalil’s book A Rebel and Her Cause: Life and Work of Rashid Jahan. Hosted at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, the launch ceremony was followed by a discussion on the critically-acclaimed biography. The evening started with the unveiling of the photo exhibition 'The Life of Rashid Jahan Angareywali'. It took me some time to fall in love with the gallery's grainy black & white images. I was getting distracted by some of the old ladies in the crowd. Wearing artistic saris, these grey-haired fairies looked like faithful subscribers of some expensive left-leaning English-language literary journal. One woman in a purple sari appeared
Atget’s Corner – 91-95, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - May 1, 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 91 to 95. 91. Basant