Death Notice – Spell & Bound Bookshop is Closing, SDA Market
Death of a landmark. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Opened in 2011, the Spell & Bound Bookshop in South Delhi’s SDA Market will soon be history. “We are closing this month,” a staffer told The Delhi Walla. He…
Death Notice – Timeless Art Book Studio is Closing, Kotla Mubarakpur
Death of a landmark. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Opened in its new avatar in 2009, Timeless Art Book Studio in Kotla Mubarakpur, South Extension-I, will soon be history. “I deal in expensive coffee-table books. Since there are…
Julia Child in Delhi – Himani Dehlvi Makes ‘Go-To’ Mutton Kofta, Greater Kailash Enclave Part-I
The great chef’s life in Delhi. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Meet the Julia Child of South Delhi’s Greater Kailash Enclave Part-I. Himani Dehlvi lives in a cheery sun-filled apartment with husband, Vaseem, and cook, Zakir. A 50-something…
Photo Essay – Museum of Rejects, Vasundhara
A scrap dealer’s shed. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla enters the shed of scrap dealer Raju, who uses only one name. The decade-old shed is situated in an open ground in Vasundhara, a…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Elizabeth Bishop, Fact & Fiction Booksellers
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla arranged to meet American poet Elizabeth Bishop at the Fact & Fiction Booksellers in South Delhi’s Basant Lok Market. The city’s most eclectic bookshop, Fact &…
Atget’s Corner – 861-865, 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,…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Neha Mathur, Asiad Village
The 99th death. [Text by Neha Mathur; photo by “Husband”] As irony would have it, a hailstorm ravaged the night when Neha Mathur’s soul departed for another world, just like the day she was born. A single spaghetti dangled from…
City Moment – The Last Remaining Books, Fact & Fiction Booksellers
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla enters the Fact & Fiction Booksellers in Basant Lok Market. The shop is empty. There are no customers. There aren’t even many books. Almost…
Our Self-Written Obituaries – Sohini Pal, Landour
The 98th death. [Text by Sohini Pal; photo by Reeti Roy] Well-known children’s author Sohini Pal was found dead this morning in her tiny bungalow in Landour, a hill town near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand. The person who discovered her…
Home Sweet Home – Thomas Ellis’s Residence, Sujan Singh Park
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One late morning The Delhi Walla enters the home of French filmmaker Thomas Ellis. He lives in the exclusive Sujan Singh Park Apartments in Central Delhi. Raised in the 1940s,…
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