City Library – Anjani Kumar’s Books Sequel, Jor Bagh
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla has often flicked books from other people’s homes. So it was quite astounding to know that there are people doing the exact opposite. Readers will remember the…
City Library – Karthika VK’s Books, East of Kailash
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Sometimes a collection of books becomes a portrait of a marriage. One evening, The Delhi Walla visited Karthika VK, publisher of HarperCollins India, at her East of Kailash home. In…
City Library – Shuddhabrata Sengupta’s Books, Old Rajinder Nagar
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Life to death, sex to body (and body parts – the eyes, hands, the left hand, breasts, the penis, the vagina, bones and blood and guts). There are also shelves…
City Library – Vinod Mehta’s Books, Hazrat Nizamuddin East
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The warm daylight is streaming in through the window. It is utterly quiet. This is the book room of Vinod Mehta, the founder-editor of Outlook magazine who died in March,…
City Library – Mister Arjun’s Books, The Piano Man
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] You don’t usually see books lying about in Delhi restaurants, except for a few loungy places in Paharganj where foreign backpackers leave behind their India guidebooks for the benefit of…
City Library – Anjani Kumar’s Books, Jor Bagh
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla invited himself to Anjani Kumar’s library. The books are stocked in his office, which is a cramped plywood cabin situated outside a bungalow in Jor…
City Library – Sadia Dehlvi’s Books, Nizamuddin East
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One rainy evening, The Delhi Walla knocks on the door of Sadia Dehlvi. In her fifties, she lives in an apartment in Nizamuddin East with her son, her cook and…
City Library – Jhampan Mookerjee’s Books, Gurgaon
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One mildly-warm dusty noon, The Delhi Walla knocks on the door of Jhampan Mookerjee. In his fifties, he lives in an apartment in Gurgaon with his thousand books, three dogs,…
City Library – Nishat Fatima’s Books, Greater Kailash-I
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla knocks on the door of Nishat Fatima. In her thirties, Ms Fatima lives in a second-floor apartment in Greater-Kailash I, a south Delhi neighbourhood. Her…
City Library – Abdul Sattar’s Books, Pahari Imli
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening, The Delhi Walla knocks on the door of Abdul Sattar. In his sixties, Mr Sattar lives with two of his four children in Pahari Imli, a Walled City…
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