Hindustan Times
Man and his woman.
Mathura Road: A man and woman on a bike. An apartment in suburban Vasundhra: A man in the bedroom, a woman in the kitchen. Zebra crossing in Inner Circle, Connaught Place: A man and woman crossing the road. Read more
(16 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged Chandni Chowk, Connaught Place, couple, happy couples, Lodhi Garden, marriage, married couples, Mathura Road, Nizamuddin West, portrait, Red Fort, Vasundhara
It was over in half an hour. One afternoon this rainy season, clouds suddenly gathered over the Delhi sky, a dust storm followed, trees fell and then a furious downpour drenched almost the entire city. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged city, clouds, delhi, downpour, dust storm, metro, monsoon, rains, rainy afternoon, rainy season
The first day of Delhi University's new session.
On the morning of July 21, 2010, The Delhi Walla went to Hindu College in Delhi University. It was the first day of the new academic session and I was looking for fuchchas, the DU slang for freshers, or the first year students. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged academic session, amusement, college, Delhi university, DU, freshers, fuchchas, Hindu College, interaction, political science, ragged, ragging, seniors, slang, The Delhi Walla
One of the one per cent in 13 million.
She looks up at the evening sky, stays still for a moment before starting to pace again. The Delhi Walla met Rakhshanda Jalil, 47, in Gandhi-King Plaza, a little pool garden in the members-only India International Center (IIC), a cultural institution near Khan Market. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged authored, British Library, broke, cameo, delhi walla, editor, evocative, fiction, Finchley, foliage, freedom movement, Gandhi-King Plaza, hujra, India International Center, Indian Muslims, Jamia Millia University, Jamia Nagar, Khan Market, khanqas, King's Cross, laptop, library, London, mainstream, national dailies, peacock, PhD, Progressive Writers, Rakhshanda Jalil, short stories, South Delhi, Sufis, tube, TV serials, Urdu, wi-fi
Chausanth Khamba, Nizamuddin Basti
The most beautiful of all buildings in the congested Nizamuddin Basti, it is also the most ignored. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged 14th century village, Chausanth Khamb, Chausanth Khamba, Emperor Akbar, Mirza Aziz Kokaltash, Mirza Ghalib, Nizamuddin Basti, North Pole, Urdu poet
Allah is closer to Old Delhi rooftops
One afternoon The Delhi Walla went knocking around houses in Old Delhi’s Matia Mahal asking the residents, “May I please climb to your rooftop?” I was refused. People thought I was crazy. But I only wanted to see how Jama Masjid looks from the roof of a Walled City house. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, July 12, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Filed under Musings, The Delhi Walla · Tagged allah, chhat, Connaught Place, Daryaganj, Himalayan mountain peak, Hindustan Times, Jama Masjid, Matia Mahal, news, Old Delhi, Red Fort, rooftop, sees ganj, skyscrapers, Somerville School, tallest
Requiem for the dead
On the night of July 1, 2010, three suicide bombers struck in quick succession at the Sufi shrine of Data Ganj Baksh, or Data Darbar, in Lahore, Pakistan. Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, July 5, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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