City Food - Fruit Sandwich, Jain Coffee House

City Food – Fruit Sandwich, Jain Coffee House

A Chawri exclusive. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Jain Coffee House looks terribly modest. Yet it is an essential Old Delhi destination. Situated beside a granary in Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar, it has been serving fruit sandwiches…

Atget’s Corner – 231-235, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 231-235, Delhi Photos

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,…

City Notice – India Today Magazine Steals The Delhi Walla’s Photo

City Notice – India Today Magazine Steals The Delhi Walla’s Photo

Theft in journalism. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] It is a great pleasure for The Delhi Walla to be a writer and photographer. But it is very frustrating when a media group steals your work. The June 16 2014 issue of…

City Monument - Teen Murti Bhavan, Central Delhi

City Monument – Teen Murti Bhavan, Central Delhi

Into a family album. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] How could a handsome, erudite man of romantic sensibilities such as Jawaharlal Nehru bring himself to read Research In Animal Husbandry? Thousands of similarly titled volumes that line the…

Atget’s Corner – 226-230, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 226-230, Delhi Photos

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,…

Atget’s Corner – 221-225, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 221-225, Delhi Photos

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,…

City Landmark - Hindu College, North Campus

City Landmark – Hindu College, North Campus

The rightward course. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It appears to be a new dawn for the “lotus”. No, The Delhi Walla is not cheering the 2014 election victory of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Narendra Modi, who led…

Atget’s Corner – 216-220, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 216-220, Delhi Photos

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,…

Atget’s Corner – 211-215, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 211-215, Delhi Photos

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,…

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Judith Oriol, Connaught Place

Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Judith Oriol, Connaught Place

The Proustian self-introspection. [By The Delhi Proustians] The Proust Questionnaire represents a form of interview that owes its structure to answers given by French novelist Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time, at two birthday parties that…