The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Most regulars to The Second Floor, or T2F, are young and speak with an American accent. If this were some other city in some other country, T2F…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Pakistanis love reading Chick Lit as much as Delhiites. The Delhi Walla discovered it while attending the two-day Karachi Literature Festival. Held on on March 21-21, it…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] In Lahore, The Delhi Walla pretended to be a Lahori. I travelled in an auto rickshaw. I rode on a bike. I boarded a city bus. As…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Heera Mandi, Lahore’s fabled red light district, is almost dead. Most dancing establishments have shut down. The courtesans no longer pretend to be mere dancers. Operating as…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] With its sultry days and breezy evenings, Karachi is cosmopolitan like Bombay, class-driven like Delhi and edgy like Baghdad. It is rich, poor, good, bad, beautiful, ugly,…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Mazar-e-Qaid. Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah lies buried here. The Delhi Walla is accompanied by Asim Ghani, a Delhi-born Karachiwalla. On the eve of Pakistan’s first Independence…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] It is 7 am. The room is lined with old paperbacks. Tiger, the house dog, is looking out of the grill into the garden. Rosemary, the maid,…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi] Reeling under unending terror attacks, Pakistan is all set to host its first major literary event on March 21, 2010. The budget of Karachi Literature Festival is…
The Delhi Walla in the fatherland. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] I’m standing outside McDonald’s at Park Towers shopping mall. The sea wind is breezy. The evening traffic is moving at a snail’s pace. Suddenly, a bearded man…
One of the one per cent in 13 million. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] Coming out of the kitchen, she stops at the centre of the room and looks around. Rachana Rao Umashankar’s apartment is bustling with life….
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