Letter from Venice – A home in Venezia, Calle delle Canne
Inside a Venetian home. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The first floor window usually remains open during the day. A pedestrian walking on the street outside just have to crane his neck upwards to have a glimpse of…
City List – 20 Living Urdu Writers, Dehli
Beyond Ghalib. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] An English newspaper reader is more likely to have heard of Upamanyu Chatterjee (who lives in Nizamuddin East) or Aatish Taseer (near Lodi Garden) than Khalid Jawed (Okhla) or Anjum Usmani…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Abhijit Dutta, Singapore
The 68th death. [Text by Abhijit Dutta; photo by Sebastian Ku] Fittingly, Abhijit Dutta died mid sentence, hanging from the edge of a comma. He had always been a man of great ambition. Indeed, his ambitions were so great and…
Atget’s Corner – 791-795, 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 Venice – Proust in French, Castello
In search of Marcel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is performing a Proustian pilgrimage in Venice, a place that was special to French novelist Marcel Proust. One day I visited Libreria “Acqua Alta” in Castello….
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Sayantan Ghosh, Pondicherry
The 67th death. [Text by Sayantan Ghosh; photo by a ‘House Guest’] “I thought he had died long ago” — this was the first reaction of Sayantan Ghosh’s friend Nandu when we contacted him over the phone, informing him of…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Mathura Road
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One late morning The Delhi Walla enters the home of Zeenat Begum. In her late 30s, she lives on Mathura Road with her father-in-law, two children, and a friend. “I…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Alok Prasanna Kumar, H. Nizamuddin West
The 66th death. [Text by Alok Prasanna Kumar; photo by Ankit Goel] Alok Prasanna Kumar, a legal policy expert and collector of trivia about the Indian legal system, was found dead yesterday by the police in his flat in Hazrat…
Netherfield Ball – Vedova Opening Party, Zattere, Venice
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cool evening The Delhi Walla attended the opening of ‘Frammenti Expo ’67: Alexander Calder, E Emilio Vedova’, an art exhibition in Magazzino del Sale in Zattere, Venice. (I’m in…
Atget’s Corner – 786-790, 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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