City Life – Cable Art, Old Delhi Life by The Delhi Walla - February 25, 2019February 25, 20191 The wired aesthetics. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Guidebooks are silent about it. As though sightseers in Old Delhi would utterly fail to notice all those power cables dangling low, all over the place. These thick cables in the historic Walled City are affixed to electrical poles like sleepy pythons entangled with one another so densely that they can’t be distinguished one from the other. Sometimes, the installations are spread across narrow lanes in such complicated patterns that they can easily act as metaphors for a street map in a magic realism novel. You can encounter one such classic gossamer web on stepping out of Chawri Bazar metro station. There they are, the fantastically intertwined power cables looped around an electric pole,
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Varsha Pednekar, Goa Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - February 25, 2019February 25, 20190 The 212nd death. [Text and photos sent by Varsha Pednekar] For a person who loved being alone, dying alone too must have been joyous. Varsha Pednekar, 30, was found dead in her bed with her two dogs at her feet. She was fascinated by Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Amy Winehouse and wished to join the '27 Club' herself. Alas, she was 3 years too late. An empty bottle of her sleep medication was found by her bedside. Next to it were a few datura pods and a bottle of cheap Sauvignon. She didn't want to take any chances this time it seemed. And it worked indeed. Gone too soon, a few may say. But Varsha knew this day was coming since she