Atget’s Corner – 326-330, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 9, 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 326 to 330. 326. Hauz
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Kasturba Gandhi Marg Style by The Delhi Walla - July 9, 20142 Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla finds this unshaven bespectacled man in a bus shelter in central Delhi’s Kasturba Gandhi Marg. He is wearing a khadi kurta and faded blue jeans. A bag is slung around his shoulder. In her 2010 book The Fabric of Our Lives: The Story of Fabindia, author Radhika Singh traces this style to the Delhi of the 1970s: Kurtas were unisex and ideologically trendy. Most university wore kurtas over their jeans and kolhapuri chappals, and carried cloth sling bags called ‘jholas’. That was the ‘look’, and the handspun style served the Delhi teenagers of post-independent India very well. Delhi was decidedly leftist in that decade. Today, a right-wing government