Mission Delhi – Adam Burakowski, Gujarat Bhawan Restaurant
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Moong dal, arhar dal, vegetable kofta, aloo gobhi matar, farsan, choorma laddu, dhokla, tillar papad and fresh rotis. This picturesque Gujarati thali will soon be…
City Walk – Gali Chandi Wali, Old Delhi
Rue du silver. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] See the photo. That deg is filled with molten chandi, the silver. Anybody can come and get a bowl full of it for 30 rupees. If only. But then it…
City Moment – Sense of a Place, Kabir Marg
Life of a traffic island. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] A city gets truly authentic when it is not on show. Easier to find its soul in ordinary places, during ordinary moments, when nothing is happening. When one…
Atget’s Corner – 1191-1195, Delhi Photos
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
City Landmark – Lankeshwar Mahadev Mandir, New Delhi Railway Station
Gods by the tracks. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Saaye saaye, so whistles the forceful afternoon breeze. But the peepal is staying unmoved. No leaf stirs. Its branches, bare. The courtyard too is bare, of humans. But it…
City Landmark – New Book Land, Janpath
A circle of books. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Some places are like Mount Everest. You might not have been to them, but you know they are there. Same is the case with New Book Land. The shop…
City Walk – Ansari Road, Old Delhi
A road by the wall. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] They say as the plane descends on reaching Mumbai, a window-side flier gets to see a large number of rooftops in blue. And as you walk through Ansari…
Atget’s Corner – 1186-1190, Delhi Photos
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
Mission Delhi – Abid Husain, Turkman Gate
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Perhaps he’s not special, this thought does cross his mind. After all, many, many, young men across this big wide world must have faced life’s…
Mission Delhi – Naushe Bhai, Chitli Qabar Chowk
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A wine-brown mongoose dashes off as a bow from an arrow, followed by a man with a bundle half his size, followed by a boy…
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