Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Jonaki Ray’s Poem on Corona, Chirag Enclave
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Who could have imagined coronavirus touching our life so intimately. So maddening to be quarantined at home. But Jonaki Ray isn’t into cribbing. A scientist in a Noida-based software…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Chaitanya Kaushik, Jangpura
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Lawyer Chaitanya Kaushik, 29, spent his childhood and the first flush of his youth in neighbouring Faridabad. “I then spent five years at a law school in Jodhpur and…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Jaideep Warya , Aurobindo Marg
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Most people listen to songs on the FM during their commutes. But one late evening in south Delhi’s Aurobindo Marg, landscape architect Jaideep Warya was spotted reading a poetry…
City Poetry – What if Ghalib Were a Woman, Old Delhi
Ghalib as woman. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Not only was poet Mirza Ghalib to be reckoned with in Delhi’s super-sophisticated literary and aristocratic salons but, according to late historian Percival Spear, he also “burrowed below the dignified…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Pallavi Barnwal, Connaught Place
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] A poet’s life isn’t easy. Pallavi Barnwal still has to shuttle daily to her day job. After all, one ought to pay the bills, and Ms Barnwal, a single…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Jonaki Ray, Chirag Enclave
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She was one of the 12 girls doing Masters in Chemistry in IIT Kanpur in a batch of 320 guys. Next, she went to the US for a Masters…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Kundan Kumar Singh, Central Delhi
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Sometimes Kundan Kumar Singh is filled up with confidence-shattering self-doubt. Not because his wife tells him “What will you get from these poems” but because he feels that “Anybody…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Michael Creighton’s Love Songs, Adjacent to Outer Ring Road
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This American poet has lived in our midst for more than a decade, doing what most of us never do. Taking long walks — sometimes for hours at a…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Ankita Surabhi’s Heartbreak Poetry, Lajpat Nagar
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It’s morning and Ankita Surabhi is nonchalantly looking at the monkey sitting just outside her balcony window. He, too, is intently staring back at her. Soon she must get…
Delhi’s Bandaged Heart – Vidya Singh, Ghaziabad
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So many of us dream of becoming writers. Mostly it just remains a dream. But not in Vidya Singh’s case. Last year, this 77-year-old poet became the author of…
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