City Landmark – North Korean Embassy, RM Vats Marg
Letter from North Korea. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Standing alone against a golden sky, he is smiling beatifically, God-like. Next, he is visiting a textile mill, amused at a weave. Next, he is joking with the “old…
City Landmark – Barahpulla Drain, Mathura Road
Twilight in Delhi. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The water has turned pure gold. The departing sun is generously lending all its farewell glow to the stream. Occasionally, the self-contained placidity of the water is disturbed by the…
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Satish Sundra, Ram Chander & Sons
The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] He sits in Connaught Place (CP) daily. This has been his routine since 1954. Indeed, he is like our dear old CP of the earlier times, when the colonial-era arcade was said to…
City Walk – World-Class Sidewalk, Aurobindo Marg
Footpath no. 1. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Come alone. You wouldn’t want a friend to see you gushing over a footpath. But then this redeveloped footpath is so tiptop. True, Gurgaon boasts a set of three new-age…
City Walk – Lal Galli-Part 2, Old Delhi
A passage in the Walled City. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Cities are such a messy cobweb of truths and legends. Almost impossible to distengale the two. Such as our labyrinthine Purani Dilli. Last week The Delhi Walla…
Mission Delhi – Muhammed Shamsher Alam, Pataudi House
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is preparing mutton curry. “Some more minutes,” mutters Muhammed Shamsher Alam. The dish will be shared between six folks. All the labourers live and…
City Hangout – Little Amphitheatre, DLF CuberHub, Gurgaon
A passage in the Walled City. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Not that the coronavirus has been forgotten but we citizens have started to re-mingle. And old places to mingle are again desirable. One feels homesick for those…
City Walk – Lal Galli-Part 1, Old Delhi
A passage in the Walled City. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is late morning and M. Zameer New Fashion is still shuttered. But the boutique’s banner (“costume designer in gents & all rounder”) is painted in red,…
Delhi’s Proust Questionnaire – Shalini Bahadur, Park Place, Gurgaon
The parlour confession. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Along with her two daughters, original paintings, a lot many novels, and with coffee cups from across the world thar her Chandigarh-based parents gift to her from their holidays, Shalini Bahadur lives amid…
Mission Delhi – Richa Chaudhary, SG Homes, Greater Delhi Region
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Management and Economics assistant professor Richa Chaudhary only recently became a writer. “I started writing when I started being in deep pain,” she says, here…
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