Mission Delhi – Tippu, Chelmsford Road
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Everyone is walking freely but not him. He is not a human like us. One cloudy afternoon The Delhi Walla meets a very edible-looking white…
City Notice – Delhi Storytellers RV Smith, Sadia Dehlvi, Rakhshanda Jalil, Oxford Book Store
Three writers together. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] To celebrate the publication of RV Smith’s book, Delhi: Unknown Tales of a City, authors Sadia Dehlvi and Rakhshanda Jalil will today stage a conversation with him deliciously titled ‘Dilli…
Metro Observed – Inside the Coaches-3, Delhi Subway
Life in the Metro. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] No place like home, New York, New York. The Delhi Walla saw this man on the Delhi Metro Blue Line, somewhere between the Rajiv Chowk and Dwarka Sector 21…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Pagalkavi, Hari Nagar
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One raining afternoon The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Pagalkavi at his apartment near Tanki Walla Park in West Delhi’s Hari Nagar. “I live with my parents and…
Atget’s Corner – 856-860, 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,…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Jonah Ayodele Obajeun, Lagos, Nigeria
The 95th death. [By Jonah Ayodele Obajeun] Jonah Ayodele Obajeun was an amateur lover of madmen, who would be remembered as a journeyman crusader of writing parity, who wasn’t mourned for the good he did, but was missed for the…
Hauz Khas Series – A House in the Village, Chapter 9
Life in Delhi’s prettiest neighborhood. [Text by Nina Warglien and Charlotte Liebenow; photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Note to the reader: This piece is written by two young fashion designers from Europe. Nina Warglien and Charlotte Liebenow live in a…
City Food – Chhole Bhature, Kwality Restaurant
Full of hot air. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Envious outsiders dismiss us Delhiwallas as boastful loudmouths. Apparently we are full of hot air. The trait is accurately reflected, with a pinch of salt, in chhole bhature, Delhi’s…
City Life – The Descent of Men, Turkman Gate
The Delhi reality. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla saw a grey-haired man asleep on the pavement just outside the Mughal-era monument of Turkman Gate. The man was covered with a sack. Flies buzzed…
Netherfield Ball – Murad Ali Baig’s Book Reception, India International Center
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She looked like a forest fairy with large kohl-rimmed eyes and jasmine flowers in her hair. One rainy evening The Delhi Walla went to the launch of Murad Ali Baig’s…
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