City Moment – Muhammad Shah Rangila’s Biryani, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Dargah
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One man is carrying a plastic bucket filled with rose-flavoured milk. Another is doling out Parle G biscuits. It is a miserably humid evening in the month of Ramzan….
City Monuments – H.A. Mirza & Sons Postcards, Muslim & British Delhi
The beautiful untruths. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The fragmented past lives on in memories. Sometimes it gets marinated in more tangible objects. In the early decades of 20th century, the photo studio of H.A. Mirza & Sons in Chandni Chowk,…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Ishan Marvel & Aleksandr Pushkin, Mandi House
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla met poet Ishan Marvel outside Regal Cinema in early 2015. That evening he had shared his poem ‘My City is…’ with us. I meet Mr Marvel…
Delhi Archives – Nainital, North of Delhi
[Digging out old stories from The Delhi Walla] At a height of 1,938m, giddy tourists gratify themselves by boating on the lake, riding the ropeway trolley and shopping on Mall Road. That’s Nainital, the hill station in Uttarakhand’s Kumaon region,…
City Obituary – Ghantewala Confectioners (1790-2015), Chandni Chowk
Rest in peace. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the cat from mewing with a juicy bone. It’s dead, it’s dead. The iconic Mughal-era mithai shop Ghantewala in Chandni Chowk…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Vivek Tejuja, Bangalore
The 86th death. [Text by Vivek Tejuja; photo by Unknown] His relationships were a mess. He lived like that, always fleeting – a man this time, another the next time and then there was no stopping. At the end of…
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