The passing of a time. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] New Okhla Industrial Development Authority — who would relate a place with such an unpoetic name with writers? But novelist Vikram Seth lives in this same Noida, after all. The legendary writer Qurratulain Hyder also spent her final years in this planned township in the all- encompassing Greater Delhi Region. And so did the eminent poet Gulzar Dehlvi. He died late last week but not before defeating the Covid-19 that he was infected with. He succumbed to cardiac arrest a few days after his healthy return from the hospital. He was 93. There are many ways to celebrate a writer’s life. The superior one is of course to read his or her entire oeuvre;