Life in a red light district. [Text by Bhavna Bhasin; photo by Harsh Jain] Delhi-based writer, lawyer, photographer Bhavna Bhasin discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, on her website Flutterings of an overwhelmed soul.... Click here to read the review, or see below. I’D HAVE whispered Nobody Can Love you More in Mayank’s ears, if I was not privy to the trove of love that flows his way every single day. If you’ve been following The Delhi Walla, you’d be nodding vehemently at this point. If not, you’ve missed your spot on the time capsule that Soofi has built with unbelievable precision and patience (Just Kidding, his readers are fairly accommodating,

Life in a red light district. [By Nigel Tan] Nigel Tan of the Singapore-based The Ridge Magazine talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the magazine’s website, or see below. PUBLISHED IN late 2012, Nobody Can Love You More is like an anthology of heartbreaking poetry by Indian writer and photojournalist Mayank Austen Soofi, who is widely known for his blog, The Delhi Walla (www.thedelhiwalla.com). In this foray into Delhi’s darker side, Soofi documents his 3-year long investigative journey into GB Road, the largest red light district in Delhi, which is notorious for its trade and its prevalence of crime and violence that go with the

Life in a red light district. [By Enid Paul] Enid Paul of The Hindu talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. LIFE IN Delhi’s red light area hardly arouses general interest as those who live in it are just left to their miserable fate. But a book, Nobody Can Love You More (published by Penguin Viking) by Mayank Austen Soofi, takes us behind the walls of G. B. Road, named after a British civic official. “There are 80 kothas in 42 buildings in it” and you can imagine how the numerous sex workers, exploited by pimps and harassed by

Life in a red light district. [By Venkatarangan] Chennai-based blogger Venkatarangan discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, on his website Read, Seen and Happened (A diary in public). Click here to read the review, or see below. YESTERDAY I begun to read this book “Nobody Can Love You More” by Mayank Austen Soofi. Its about the Life in Delhi’s Red Light District. Wait… It is not a directory of services at sale there. Its about the life of the working woman living there and people around them. After watching me for an hour wife came near and snatched my Kindle that I was reading from. Reading the title she remarked that she

Life in a red light district. [By Chinki Sinha] Chinki Sinha of Open magazine talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the magazine’s website, or see below. AT ONE point in this book, author Mayank Austen Soofi is told, you have the pen, you have the power. But honesty is not the only virtue that can make the documentation of the ordinariness of the extraordinary lives of women in kothas — who swear in front of their children and have sex with strangers — a story that moves you. For, in his book, the author, the thin and wiry man who goes in and out

A journey into the red light. [By Helena Kaartinen] [Note: The author of this article is a senior Finnair flight attendant and a mother who blogs at Finnair Blog and At Helena's.] It is evening and I’m walking in circles in my hotel room in Delhi. My brain feels mushy and slow, as it always does when I get up after a post-night flight nap. There is a big bag on the floor, filled with presents; one for a man, six for the women, and four for the children. I'm about to visit an Indian brothel. There is a red-light district in Delhi, actually a road aligned with hardware shops, and sex is sold in the apartments above them. All of the apartments

Life in a red light district. [By Nidhi Mahajan] Literary critic and blogger Nidhi Mahajan discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, on her website Literature Martini. Click here to read the review, or see below. NOBODY CAN Love You More is one of those engaging and overwhelming reads that leave you with so many thoughts but not enough words to put them in. When I picked up this book, my first impression of it was that as a non-fiction book about Delhi’s red light district, it will explore the lives of women who live and work at GB Road. It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the book is so

On Delhi's red light district. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Hot off the press. In February 2014, Penguin Books India published the first paperback edition of Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla that first arrived in the world in a hardbound format. Here is the book's description as seen on its back cover: The sex workers of Kotha No. 300 raise their children, cook for their lovers, visit temples, shrines and mosques, complain about pimps and brothel owners, listen to film songs, and solicit and entertain customers. By following the daily lives of the denizens of one kotha, Mayank Austen Soofi paints an intimate portrait of women for whom sex is work—a way to make

Life in a red light district. [By Ajachi Chakrabarti; photos are by Mayank Austen Soofi] Ajachi Chakrabarti of the Delhi-based Tehelka magazine talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the magazine’s website, or see below. THE YELLOW Line of the Delhi Metro is a fascinating journey connecting multiple Delhis separated by space and time. Moving north from the high rises of Gurgaon through the glitz of South Delhi, then passing under the corridors of power of Lutyen’s capitol into the labyrinthine streets of the old city, it is a journey that takes you back centuries. Mayank Austen Soofi’s latest book came out of many trips along

Life in a red light district. [By readers on Goodreads] Critic Reema Sahay discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, in the social-cataloging website Good Reads. Click here to read the review, or see below. NOBODY CAN Love You More by Mayank Austen Soofi is an attempt to bring out the ordinariness in the extraordinary lives of the women of GB Road, the notorious red light area of Delhi. The author is gently probing, deeply observant and extremely patient in following the lives of sex workers of kotha (brothel) number teen sau (300) for three years. The best thing about this book is that though it keenly observes, it never judges;