One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Here’s a real-life story with a happy ending. The greatest landmark of Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti is its Sufi shrine from which this Central Delhi village takes its name. The area’s other important monument is poet Ghalib’s tomb. But the greatest living landmark here is not some dervish or Sufi music singer or Ghalib scholar. It is a homeless man with a brown dog. Nobody knows his name. He never talks. He just parked himself permanently in one corner of Ghalib Street and there he has been existing for years in conditions unfit for any human survival—men, goats, dogs freely relieve themselves around him. One could mistake the