Photo Essay – The Aloneness of Ruchir Sharma, Khan Market Photo Essays by The Delhi Walla - July 9, 2016July 9, 20160 The published author with his new book. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Is there a more intensely anxious feeling than to be a published writer and enter a bookshop to gaze upon one’s own book that has newly arrived in the world? One afternoon The Delhi Walla sees author Ruchir Sharma enter Bahrisons Booksellers in Khan Market. He is in a blue shirt and white pants—this is also the color combination of the cover of his most recent book, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in a Post-Crisis World. The bookshop’s Mithilesh Singh greets the author and requests him to sign the copies of the Rise and Fall. The New York-based writer stands beside a lectern-like thing and
Atget’s Corner – 926-930, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 9, 2016July 9, 20160 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, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 25,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Five randomly picked pictures from this collection are regularly put up on the pages of this website. The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.” Here are Delhi photos numbered 926 to 930. 926. Turkman Gate Bazaar 927. Fact