Our Self-Written Obituaries – Chiki Sarkar, Jor Bagh
The 48th death. [Text by Chiki Sarkar; photo by Siddharth Dhanwant Sanghvi] Chiki Sarkar was run over by a car earlier this morning. Her family and friends had always worried about her cavalier attitude towards crossing roads and their fears…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Vasantha Angamuthu, Durban
The 47th death. [By Vasantha Angamuthu] Writer, cookbook hoarder and mother of the talented Nina Singh, Vasantha Angamuthu (6 April 1968 – 6 April 2068) died in her sleep last night, much earlier than she would have liked but much…
City Moment – Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, Appetite German Bakery
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She is with a huge backpack. One hot afternoon The Delhi Walla comes across a young woman in a blue top, sitting alone in Appetite German Bakery, a café…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Sanjiv Saraf, Maharani Bagh
The 46th death. [Text by Sanjiv Saraf; photo by The Rekhta Team] Sanjiv Saraf, businessman and Urdu poetry lover, died yesterday. When he was just 26 years old, Mr Saraf, an engineer from IIT Kharagpur, left a cushy position in…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Heena Khan, Copernicus Marg
The 45th death. [Text by Heena Khan; photo by Ziya Khan] Deeply religious, she lived her life behind a veil of illusions. However, sometimes, just sometimes, Heena Khan would wear her modesty quite literary, too, as a hijab. It was…
Photo Essay – Premier Padmini, Defence Colony
The world of yesterday. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The old rusting car stood under a tree. Its grille was broken. The bonnet and the roof were covered with dry leaves. The windows were rolled up. The doors…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Binduu Chopra, Faridabad
The 44th death. [Text by Binduu Chopra; photo by Aryan Adityo] Binduu was a dot. She was also a drop of water; also a full circle. Actually, she just wished to be a drop of love. Eldest of the three…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Lesley Esteves, Alaknanda
The 43rd death. [Text by Lesley Esteves; photo by Shuddhabrata Sengupta] Lesley Esteves, who passed away at 82 from complications of type 2 diabetes, grew up in Mumbai and later settled permanently in Goa, but spent the prime years of…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Padmini Vaidyanathan, Sector 29, Noida
The 42nd death. [Text by Padmini Vaidyanathan; photo by Nameless Memory] All she wanted was an epitaph that read ‘Love’. That is how Padmini Vaidyanathan defined her crazy life and her penchant for everything crazy. If she knew it was…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Sadia Dehlvi, H. Nizamuddin East
The 41st death. [Text by Sadia Dehlvi; photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] There was an unmistakable scent of roses in the room. That night she dreamed of a luminous being telling her she would soon journey to the other world….
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