Our Self-Written Obituaries – Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Hazrat Nizamuddin West
The 52nd death. [Text by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan; the self-portrait is of the author in her 30s with Pablo, the inspiration behind her cat breed project] Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan died on January 2, 2082. She had just turned one hundred…
City Landmark – Deserted Bungalow, Connaught Place
Space and the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] There is a rare bungalow on Tolstoy Lane, a pedestrian-friendly street in the colonial-era business district of central Delhi’s Connaught Place. Nobody lives in the house. The only inhabitants…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Vardhna Puri, Tughlakabad Fort
The 51st death. [Text by Vardhna Puri, photo by Ambika Kapoor] Vardhna Puri had been alive for a really long time. Or a very short while indeed. She died reading Winterson, her belief firmly placed in the non linearity of…
Delhi Archives – Paan, Around Town
[Digging out old stories from The Delhi Walla] A foreign art critic visiting Delhi’s Connaught Place may be forgiven for thinking its red-splattered corridors are a form of abstract expression. Although the dirty white pillars of the colonial-era arcade were…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – 50 Deaths, Delhi & Elsewhere
On our own obits. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] So far 50 of us have died. The Delhi Walla is talking of Our Self-Written Obituaries in which I invite people to write their obituary in 200 words. The idea is to…
City Faith – Passover Meal, Chabad House
Next year in Israel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Happy Passover. The Jewish people celebrate Passover for their deliverance from the slavery in Egypt. It is the beginning of freedom. Tonight there will be the ritual feast of…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Nipa Chiragi, South Delhi
The 50th death. [Text by Nipa Charagi, photo by a fellow tourist in Brussels] Nipa Charagi died today in her office chair, after hearing that the company had given her 199.99% hike. Ms Charagi had lived her life like a…
Netherfield Ball – Vinod Mehta’s Book Launch, Lodi The Garden Restaurant
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla attended the launch of journalist Vinod Mehta’s second volume of memoirs, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me at central Delhi’s Lodi The Garden restaurant….
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Vipul Khosla, Melbourne
The 49th death. [By Vipul Khosla] Footsteps on water Treading this world as if walking on water, Leaving no footsteps behind, Sometimes the earth, sometimes the fire, He was water sometimes, sometimes the rocks, Splashing sometimes and flowing at others….
Atget’s Corner – 736-740, 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,…
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