City Landmark – Indian National Flag, Central Park
People’s republic of flagistan. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The largest in India, this national flag is larger than a badminton court. You can spot it from Kasturba Gandhi Marg, or from the samosa stand outside The Embassy…
Atget’s Corner – 416-420, 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,…
Netherfield Ball – Bolbosh Website Launch, Oxford Bookstore
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the launch of literary website Bolbosh at the Oxford Bookstore in Connaught Place. Carefully unkempt writer Basharat Ali and painstakingly groomed Asiya Zahoor, the…
City Food – Delhi’s First World-Famous Cookbook, Madhur Jaffrey’s Invitation to Indian Cooking
Mostly The Subtle, Spicy Cooking of Delhi. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] On the cover, dressed in an aubergine and red Kanjeevaram silk sari with a golden border, Madhur Jaffrey looks squarely at the potential buyer, her slender…
Atget’s Corner – 411-415, 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,…
Mission Delhi – Vikash, Nelson Mandela Marg
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is hard to be optimistic about this city. One late afternoon on south Delhi’s Nelson Mandela Marg, The Delhi Walla comes across a street…
Atget’s Corner – 406-410, 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,…
Letter Leaks – Author Ananya Vajpeyi Secretly Tried to Get Dr Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste’ introduced by Arundhati Roy Banned
We’ve got that e-mail. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is in possession of a most explosive e-mail concerning author and academic Ananya Vajpeyi – she attacks author Arundhati Roy, but secretly, slyly. Ms Vajpeyi is the Delhi-based author…
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