Mission Delhi – Kavita, Sector 14, Gurgaon Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - March 10, 2019March 10, 20190 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Isn’t it ironic how the most domestic and intimate enterprises of life sometimes take place in everybody’s sight? Take this one: A young mother swinging her baby to sleep at a roadside camp in Gurgaon’s Sector 14 in the National Capital Region. The little one is swaddled in heaps of clothes. Her swing is tied to a string charpoy. The mother is sitting some distance from the bed, gently rocking the baby under the swing, thanks to a rope attached to it. “We are lohar,” she says, referring to her family of wandering blacksmiths, explaining, “This is our tradition .... “Gesturing towards the baby, she says, “This is
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Ginni Munjal, Karnal, Haryana Farewell Notice by The Delhi Walla - March 10, 2019March 10, 20190 The 216th death. [Text and photos sent by Ginni Munjal] Ginni Munjal passed away yesterday when she experienced epiphany while writing the last word of her yet to publish memoirs. It has been understood by her family and friends that she could not handle the ecstasy of her own life journey captured in her memoirs. Ms Munjal had a very cheerful face. All her life, she was running behind philosophical knowledge that would give her answers to her self-created psychological dramas, but nothing helped her. Just before her death, she was exposed to the spiritual aspect of life, which made her spiritually evolved and transformed her to an extremely happy child. After this spiritual phase, her dream was to create change in