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
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
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
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
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….
Atget’s Corner – 576-580, 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 Hangout – Traffic Training Park, Baba Kharak Singh Marg
An unusual garden. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi despises traffic rules because hardly any Delhiwalla visits the Traffic Training Park. Situated on central Delhi’s Baba Kharak Singh Marg, it is an unusual garden. Instead of flowers and…
The Ridge Magazine Review – On Nobody Can Love You More
Life in a red light district. [By Nigel Tan] Nigel Tan of the Singapore-based The Ridge Magazine talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read…
City Sighting – Dan Brown, Siri Fort
The worst-selling debacle. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Sharp at 7.05 pm 10 November 2014, renowned writer Dan Brown staggered into south Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium with the swagger of a man whose six novels are circulating across…
City Monument – St Mary’s Catholic Church, SP Mukherjee Road
God’s lovely house. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] If the British had made our land their lasting and loving home, then Delhi would have had as many British-period churches as there are Mughal-era tombs. The capital probably would…
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