City Life – Aunty’s Tree Stall, Golf Course Road, Gurgaon Life by The Delhi Walla - July 23, 2018July 23, 20181 Life under a dead tree. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Aunty has been working under this Kikar tree, here on Gurgaon’s Golf Links Road, for 15 years. Her real name is Salma Begum but barely anyone knows it. To the juice seller who operates next to her tea stall, to the local holy man who visits her daily, to the car puncture repairer down the road, and also to her regular customers, she is simply Aunty. “When I first came here, there were no buildings, nothing, and the tree was full of leaves,” she says. The Kikar was leafy until recently. “Two years ago, water supply people were digging the ground and they accidentally cut off its roots,” reveals Aunty,
Atget’s Corner – 1111-1115, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - July 23, 20180 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 1,00,000 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 1111 to 1115. 1111. Mrs Bovary’s Electric Fan...