City Life – Metro Dialogues, Blue Lines
Did you hear. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Shuttling on the Delhi Metro is incredibly visual. You see people in their most casual attitudes, completely unconscious of others, indulging in acts that are kabhi weird kabhi cute. Our…
City Monument – Neela Gumbad & Subz Burj, Near Humayun’s Tomb
Blue dome’s doppelgänger. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Life would have been less complicated if our Delhi didn’t have so many monuments. And some of those look so same-same! Take the early 16th century Neela Gumbad and the…
City Hangout – 20 Hyperlocal Chai Spots, Around Town
Trees of Kasturba Gandhi Road. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Here are Delhi’s 20 hyperlocal chai spots. Each of these places deserves a page-length praise but the detailing has been kept minimal. Sequenced randomly. 1. Zina Tea Stall…
City Nature – Tree Tomb, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
Trees of Kasturba Gandhi Road. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] In this megapolis of tombs, this too appears to be a tomb. A tree fell down some years ago, here at Kasturba Gandhi Marg. All that is left…
City Walk – Chhatta Shaikh Mangloo, Old Delhi
Life of a lane. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It flows like a nadi from under the shadow of the Jama Masjid. But a citizen walking on the street won’t see anything of the grand mosque. Flanked by…
Julia Child in Delhi – Reuma Mantzur’s Lockdown-Era Hummus, South Delhi
Delhi’s best hummus perhaps. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is tough to find a tastier hummus in the entire Delhi region than hers. But that’s the limit of her kitchen expertise. She guiltlessly admits she’s otherwise a…
City Life – Greenlands, Gurugram
Train views. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Before the tombs, the qilas, the bhawans, the DDA flats, what was it like? This zameen, on which our Delhi stands. Easy to tell you about the land on which Gurugram…
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