Delhi Pics - 2014 Delhi Gay Pride Parade, Barakhamba

Delhi Pics – 2014 Delhi Gay Pride Parade, Barakhamba

The seventh edition. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Started in 2008, the annual Delhi gay pride parade was beginning to become less important, especially after July 2009 when the Delhi High Court ruled that Section 377 of the…

Atget’s Corner – 591-595, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 591-595, 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 Culture – De Bhasar, British Council

City Culture – De Bhasar, British Council

The philosophy of nonsense. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A rainbow. The Delhi Walla saw this poster on the high-security wall of the British Council on Kasturba Gandhi Marg. It showed the slogan ‘Love is great’. This is…

Mission Delhi – Rames Kumar, SP Mukherjee Marg

Mission Delhi – Rames Kumar, SP Mukherjee Marg

One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is writing. “I’m Rames Kumar,” the young man says. “I’m a lekhak (author).” Mr Kumar is sitting on the pavement on SP Mukherjee Marg,…

Atget’s Corner – 586-590, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 586-590, 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 List – Shahi Imams, Jama Masjid

City List – Shahi Imams, Jama Masjid

Migrants from Bukhara. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Old Delhi’s Jama Masjid formally received its future ‘royal’ imam, or chief cleric, in November 2014. The Mughal-era mosque and the immediate surroundings were lit up with electric bulbs at…

Family Album – The Smiths, Mayapuri

Family Album – The Smiths, Mayapuri

The Delhi coffee table. [Text and photos of photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In order to feel the intimate life of Delhiites, The Delhi Walla is going from house to house, requesting people to show their family photos. Here is…

City Life - Photographer Vendors, India Gate

City Life – Photographer Vendors, India Gate

An unusual tribe. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s a lovely afternoon. India Gate gleams even in New Delhi’s winter haze. A boy with a hint of a stubble is lying lazily under a tree’s scented shade. His…

Atget’s Corner – 581-585, Delhi Photos

Atget’s Corner – 581-585, 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 from Allahabad - Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Hastings Road

Letter from Allahabad – Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Hastings Road

A Delhi writer in spirit. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One November noon, The Delhi Walla met Shamsur Rahman Faruqi at his bungalow in Hastings Road, Allahabad, a historically rich town 600 kilometers east of of our city….