City Life – Altering Patterns, Old Delhi Life by The Delhi Walla - March 21, 2024March 21, 20240 Everything is changing. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] One time this used to be an empty lot littered with the detritus of a collapsed mansion. Then a builder raised a multi-storey, with Khan’s Bistro on the ground level. It happened just last year. Everything is changing in Purani Dilli. While childbirths in Kasturba Gandhi maternity hospital and wedding banquets in Mahavir Vatika continue to be punctuated by regular burials in Dilli Gate Qabristan, the fabric of Walled City’s daily life is altering profoundly. Here’s a drone-like survey of some of the million public and private changes pulsating through a tiny segment of the historic quarter. Multiply these shifting minutiae of life a billion times over and this becomes an Homeric