Author Khushwant Singh’s longtime cook. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Chandan Singh, 85, has a kind of sculpted face that won’t look out of place in a room filled with death masks of Roman emperors who had lived…
Life in the Metro. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Metro commuters are great readers. Every person is spotted reading something or the other on the Smartphone. Sometimes, however, The Delhi Walla spots people actually reading a…
Searching for the stylish. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Who are these people? How do they manage to look so cool in these clothes when we know we would look like clowns in them? The Delhi Walla went…
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One evening The Delhi Walla enters The Big Chill Cakery in Khan Market. The bakery’s glass window proudly proclaims–‘Estd. 2015’. Inside: carrot cake, banofee pie, frosted brownie, blueberry cake,…
The party secrets. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The former Prime Minister’s wife was spotted here, along with her women security guards in grey safari suits. The gracious Gursharan Kaur held her black handbag in the style of…
Glimpses of a sacred space. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] An elderly pilgrim from Rajkot in Gujarat lovingly offers a rose petal to the lips of his wife. Nearby, rose petals are placed on an unknown person’s grave….
The digital dessert. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The hot season has gone but it is still possible to taste summer-time Delhi. Just grab a kulfi, the Indian-style ice cream that comes in flavours like pista, rose, cardamom…
The 103rd death. [Text by Maryann Taylor; photo by Aashish Chopra] Maryann Taylor died by choking on a red chili. The world ended in her little rented flat in Gurgaon. Ms Taylor was seated on her favourite mooda. She was…
A vanishing world. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon The Delhi Walla visited the home of Jeet Thayil, the poet and novelist in his 50s, who lives with his partner, designer and photographer Akanksha Sharma, and cat,…
Friend of the tomb. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is true only up to a point. There is a lazy dog, indeed, but no brown fox. Instead, there…
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