City Life – Bhag Bahri Malhotra’s Nehru Park Connection, Safdarjang Enclave Life by The Delhi Walla - November 24, 20200 A routine of 40 years. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Pathways go up and down the many slopes. Distractions include flowers and fountains, lovers and joggers, chai wallas and chips sellers. Nehru Park runs along a tiny patch of the Aravali range of hills, so ancient that they are even older than the Himalayas. No surprises than the landscape is punctuated with rocks, some of which must be thousands and thousands of years old. So forty years is absolutely nothing in time for this park. Yet that short period does count for something in the case of Bhag Bahri Malhotra. In her late 80s, the lady has been enjoying morning walks in this central Delhi garden for those many years. She would come with
Debris of Life & Mind – Fashion Technology Student Simran’s Dream, Janakpuri, Delhi City Dreams by The Delhi Walla - November 24, 2020November 24, 20200 Sharing a dream. [Text by Simran, photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Once again I get rejected for the job that I have applied for, not directly am I told this, but I get to know of this via instagram stories of the employer. It leaves me heartbroken at the thought of losing another job that offered me my dream work. But more than that it leaves me sad about still not being able to swing into my choice of career. The rest is hazy, chaotic parts of this vague dream, until in the next moment I find myself screaming my lungs out staring at the results of my dream college. I have finally managed to crack the exam and will this way
Mission Delhi – Pankaj Kumar, Central Delhi Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - November 24, 2020November 24, 20200 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is sitting on his rickshaw saddle, by the arcades of a central Delhi avenue. It is late in the evening, and Pankaj Kumar is waiting for customers. He is in a very distinctive T-shirt—it is painted in stripes of saffron, white and green. “It is our tiranga,” he says, confirming that the shirt is modeled after the national flag. “The jhanda (flag) is a symbol of our country, it is our pehchan (identity), whether we are rich or poor, Bihari or Bengali.” Mr Kumar bought the shirt from a stall near the Red Fort. “It was expensive,” he notes, saying he had to