City List – The Morning Gifts of City Commuters, Near Barakhamba Metro Station Delhi by List by The Delhi Walla - May 6, 2016May 6, 20161 A woman's friends. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The white-haired homeless woman is seen every morning by commuters in her usual place—a pavement close to Barakhamba Metro Station in Central Delhi’s Connaught Place. There she loudly sings sacred verses from Ram Charit Manas. The holy book is her most beloved possession. The Delhi Walla wrote about Ramrati Singh here in 2014 when she first appeared in what has become her usual spot for morning reading. Quite a few hurried passers-by stop to offer breakfast dishes to Ms Singh, though she herself does not ask for anything. On a recent morning, I stopped to make a note of offerings that Ms Singh received from commuters in the previous one hour. The short list
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Faiza S Khan, Clifton, Karachi Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - May 6, 20160 The 126th death. [Text by Faiza S Khan; photo by Avantika Sujan] Publisher and critic Faiza S Khan died last week at the age of forty-one when she read the words “isn't that just reverse sexism?” in an article causing her head to explode. A feminist whose zeal knew no bounds, there was nothing Ms Khan wouldn’t do for the cause, as long as it didn’t involve having to leave her desk or being nice to other women. One of Ms Khan's professional goals was to battle intellectual snobbery regarding popular culture. She published both literary and commercial works and threw enormous tantrums when one received more critical acclaim than the other. She was known to say “snobbery is just insecurity” on