Photo Essay – Movie Tickets, Old/Extinct Cinemas

Photo Essay – Movie Tickets, Old/Extinct Cinemas

Searching lost time. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Chanakya Cinema in Chankayapuri shut down in 2007 – its building was demolished two years later. The old Sangam Cinema in RK Puram too was razed. The colonial-era Plaza in…

City Nature – Yellow Flowers, Humayun’s Tomb

City Nature – Yellow Flowers, Humayun’s Tomb

The yellow magic. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One August evening The Delhi Walla visited Humayun’s Tomb. The setting sun made the Mughal-era stone monument appear deceptively light, and yet this impression was not the day’s principal poetic…