Home Sweet Home – Elena Ferrrazzi’s Home, Venice Ghetto
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The kitchen range has a microwave oven, upon which sits a toaster. Boxes of herbs and sugar and salt are arranged in a row. Strainers and ladles hang from hooks….
Home Sweet Home – Pratyush Pushkar’s Residence, Hauz Khas Village
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His home is like his Facebook page; it has writings on the walls. One freezing evening The Delhi Walla knocks on the door of photographer, musician and poet Pratyush Pushkar….
Home Sweet Home – Anuj Panwar’s Residence, Chirag Dilli
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] His house feels like a hotel room that has just been cleaned by the housekeeping for the next guest. Not a single element is out of place. The laptop is…
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,…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Mathura Road
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One late morning The Delhi Walla enters the home of Zeenat Begum. In her late 30s, she lives on Mathura Road with her father-in-law, two children, and a friend. “I…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Zakir Husain Marg
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla visits Muhammed Israel’s residence. In his 40s, Mr Israel lives with his wife and three sons on Zakir Husain Marg in central Delhi. A rickshaw…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Roop Nagar
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla knocked at the door of Vij Bhawan in Roop Nagar, a neighborhood in north Delhi. The bungalow is home to the extended families of four…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Lodhi Road
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cold evening The Delhi Walla entered the home of a person who appeared to be living alone in this city. The house looked to Lodhi Road. It had no…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Mathura Road
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One cold evening The Delhi Walla met the 80-year-old Manikchand, a retired rag-picker. He stays alone. The entrance of his one-room shelter faces the busy Mathura Road. In a pinkish-red…
City Life – Home Sweet Home, Ranjit Singh Road
Inside the walls. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla entered the home of Muhammed Rashid Khan. There is no doorbell because there is no door. Mr Khan, 40, lives with his wife and three…
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