Life is a series of disappointments. And then you see something grand and noble, which surpasses life. Read more

Smelling a pink silk tree flower, Raluca Sidon, a visitor from Bucharest, Romania, says, “I’m seeing it for the first time. It doesn’t grow in my country. I have only read about them in books.” Read more

Every year as winter gives way to Delhi’s short spring spell, the Delhiwallas mark the shift in season by offering yellow mustard flowers at the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, the 14th century sufi saint.

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An abstraction, Daulat ki Chaat is more an idea than a dessert. A white froth, pop a spoonful into the mouth and it disappears. The lingering sweetness is as fleeting as an early-morning dream. Read more

The Delhi Walla was one morning… no, it was not just any morning. It was the anniversary of the day when Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fundamentalist in Delhi in 1948. Read more

The book launch for The Delhi Walla series was a success. The venue was packed. People laughed and clapped. And Arundhati Roy came! This is what I said:

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Meet the Julia Child of Farash Khana, a dilapidated neighborhood in Old Delhi. A ‘legal journalist’, Child, 56, has done Master of Arts in English Literature and Sociology. Read more

Standing on the stairs of the Parliament Street subway, the white Regal building behind him, he looks up at the sky. Read more

The Delhi Walla was one morning traveling in the Delhi Metro’s Blue Line route, which connects Anand Vihar in east Delhi to Dwarka Sector 21 in west Delhi. Read more

Peanut roasting is a cold-weather trade on Delhi’s streets. Read more