City Hangout – National Museum, Janpath
Historic treasures. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The past gets tangible here. With over 200,000 exhibits, spanning over 5,000 years, the National Museum, India’s largest, is a storehouse of heritage. The museum has three floors. Its corridors are…
City Neighbourhood – Barack Chowk, Obama Vihar
Barack Obama as a Delhi neighbourhood. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] In 2009, Barack Hussein Obama took oath as the first black President of USA. In 2012, he was re-elected as the US President. In 2008, Maria Shriver,…
City Food – Rajma-Kadhi-Chhole Chawal, Around Town
The office meal. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One of the joys of becoming an adult and having a day job is that your mother no longer controls your lunch menu. The food that she would make on…
City Reading – The Delhi Proustians XXXI, Nicholson Road
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 31st meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
City Style – The Classy Delhiwalla, Jamia Nagar
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla meets this woman at an apartment in Jamia Nagar, south Delhi. She is in a sharara, a pair of loose-pleated trousers usually worn by Muslim brides….
Letter from Penguin India – A Major New Book
A public notice. Penguin India is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red-Light District, by Mayank Austen Soofi. It is published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin. The first book on…
City Faith – Bakra Eid, Matia Mahal
The ritual of sacrifice. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The goat was priced at Rs 7,000. It was purchased by the head of the family two days before Eid ul Zuha, or the feast of sacrifice, also known…
City Reading – The Delhi Proustians XXX, Fact & Fiction Booksellers
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Today is the 30th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust. Every Monday evening for an hour we read…
City Landmark – Jawaharlal Nehru University, South Delhi
Kremlin on the Jumna. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A spectre is haunting Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) — the spectre of Indian dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism, as anyone in JNU will tell you, is a philosophical approach…
City Book – The US Edition of Nobody Can Love You More
It will be published in America. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, is set to release some time in November 2012. Published…
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