[Digging out old stories from The Delhi Walla] At 72, the maker of Hindustani classical music lost interest in the world. Poet Amir Khusro, the 14th century courtier to seven kings, was in mourning after the death of his spiritual…
Smartphone and the man. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The other evening The Delhi Walla saw the Modern Man. I was at the café in Ajay Guest House in Central Delhi’s Paharganj. The man was seated alone at…
The 96th death. [Text by Vijetha SN; photo by Laxmi Narendra] Vijetha SN, a prolific journalist who wrote about everything from overflowing garbage bins in her neighbourhood to what the debonair Delhiite should be wearing, was found dead in her…
One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Everyone is walking freely but not him. He is not a human like us. One cloudy afternoon The Delhi Walla meets a very edible-looking white…
Three writers together. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] To celebrate the publication of RV Smith’s book, Delhi: Unknown Tales of a City, authors Sadia Dehlvi and Rakhshanda Jalil will today stage a conversation with him deliciously titled ‘Dilli…
Life in the Metro. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] No place like home, New York, New York. The Delhi Walla saw this man on the Delhi Metro Blue Line, somewhere between the Rajiv Chowk and Dwarka Sector 21…
Poetry in the city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One raining afternoon The Delhi Walla arranged to meet poet Pagalkavi at his apartment near Tanki Walla Park in West Delhi’s Hari Nagar. “I live with my parents and…
The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds,…
The 95th death. [By Jonah Ayodele Obajeun] Jonah Ayodele Obajeun was an amateur lover of madmen, who would be remembered as a journeyman crusader of writing parity, who wasn’t mourned for the good he did, but was missed for the…
Life in Delhi’s prettiest neighborhood. [Text by Nina Warglien and Charlotte Liebenow; photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Note to the reader: This piece is written by two young fashion designers from Europe. Nina Warglien and Charlotte Liebenow live in a…
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