City Walk – Aurangzeb Road, Central Delhi Walks by The Delhi Walla - August 29, 2015August 29, 20151 The last days of the avenue. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Speeding cars are making gentle breezy sounds. Somewhere a peacock is crying out. While the soft sun of the August evening is filling Aurangzeb Road with golden light. The Delhi Walla is walking on this tree-lined avenue with a gathering sense of loss. These are the last days of Aurangzeb Road. The New Delhi Municipal Council has decided to change the name of this Central Delhi road in honor of APJ Kalam, the former Indian president who died a few weeks ago. The demand to rename the road was made by a Delhi MP who was reported by the media to have said that “Whenever we remember [Mughal emperor] Aurangzeb,
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Barkha Gupta, Somewhere Between Two Mountain Peaks Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - August 29, 2015August 29, 20152 The 97th death. [By Barkha Gupta] She was gone too soon. Given the name of ‘bakra’ (goat) by her sisterly amigo after her jocular and witty personification, Barkha Gupta departs today towards eternity with the ticket of heaven. Nothing could move her cemented faith in Jesus Christ, though born in a Hindu orthodox family. Nepal was her abode but her heart belonged to Delhi, for which, she ended up in Satyawati college of Delhi University pursuing English literature which eventually developed in her the love of reading and utmost obsession with Mr Darcy. Being a foodaholic, one would find her gulping at the Busan Korean restaurant--with a bittergourd drink to maintain her psyche simultaneously--or sometimes at the dhabas of the Jawaharlal Nehru University to