Seeking assistance for special projects. [Text by Mayank Austen Soofi; photo by Marina Bang] The Delhi Walla is (willingly) spending too much of his time with Marcel Proust. It leaves him with not enough hours to do all he wants…
The golden era. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] So dashing! Author William Dalrymple looks like a MTV rock star at this long-ago book signing in The Book Shop. The Delhi Walla is in possession of rare photographs that…
Dining by the desktop. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] What does your keyboard likes to eat? The keyboard, as we all know, is the most humane element of the computer. Despite the development of other forms of input…
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The withdrawn address. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Note down the address: 26, Alipur Road. Get off at the Civil Lines Metro station. Walk past the Oberoi Maidens Hotel. The house is on the left. The gates are…
The 83rd death. [Text by Janaki Hrishikesh; photo by Hrishikesh Narasimhan] Janaki Hrishikesh lay peacefully having had the death she desired. She had died in her sleep and what more could she ask for. She always feared a gory death–did…
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…
The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One morning The Delhi Walla enters Sadia Dehlvi’s home in Nizamuddin East. An eminent writer, she is sitting barefoot on her drawing room floor. It is Ms Dehlvi’s 58th…
The 82nd death. [Text by RV Smith; photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] To generations in Delhi, nurtured formerly on Mughal and subsequent Anglo-Indian culture, the quintessential romantic was one who synchronized old world glamour with present-day reality. Of such caliber…
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