Atget’s Corner – 711-715, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - February 24, 20150 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 711 to 715. 711. Sunlight Colony 712.
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Namya Sinha, Caribbean Sea Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - February 24, 2015February 24, 20154 The 19th death. [Text by Namya Sinha; photo by Showkat Shafi] It was confirmed early morning today that Namya Sinha, a flamboyant elderly lady, was among the missing passengers in the cruise liner Isis (named after an Egyptian goddess, not the terrorist organisation) that sank late last week in the Caribbean Sea at 11.40 pm (ship time), two hours after hitting a floating island, 20 miles off the coast of Barbados. The ship was carrying about a thousand tourists; most of them were from the Himalayan city of Simla. All of them are presumed dead. Miss Sinha grew up reading shallow books about deep love. She died the way she lived -- traveling around the world with the latest Mills & Moon