
This is injustice
One cold afternoon, The Delhi Walla went to Jantar Mantar after receiving a chain text message the day before on the cell phone:
Join citizens’ protest against the conviction of Dr Binayak Sen at 2.30 pm on December 27, Jantar Mantar. Read more

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Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 11:13 am
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged Arundhati Roy, Binayak Sen, Chattisgarh, delhi walla, democracy, Down to Earth, dysentery epidemics, Jantar Mantar, life imprisonment, Maoists, Naxals, poverty line, Salwa Judum, starvation deaths, supreme court

One of the one per cent in 13 million
It’s mid-morning but it doesn’t matter to her. “Time doesn’t exist in my life,” says painter Usha Hooda as she dabs her brush in a heap of burnt sienna. Read more

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Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged Afghanistan, Air India, Andaman Island, CAT scan, Chandigarh, Enfield, Haryana, Hauz khas village, Himachal Pradesh, Himalayas, Hissar, Ladakh, painter, Paris, South Delhi, Sydney, Tehran, The Delhi Walla, Tokyo, trekking, Usha Hooda, Uttaranchal

The definitive Delhi guide for book lovers.
The book is not dead. Not in Connaught Place, central Delhi’s colonial-era shopping district. One winter afternoon, The Delhi Walla visited all the bookshops in the Inner Circle, Middle Circle and Outer Circle of Connaught Place. Read more

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Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged Amrit Book Company, Anil Book Corner, Anup’s Book Stall, Bargain Book Store, Cambridge Book Depot, Central News Agency, Connaught Place, Delhi Book Company, ED Galgotia & Sons Booksellers, Famous Book Store, Hindustan Times, Mehta Bandhu, New Book Depot, New Book Land, news, Oxford Book Store, People’s Publishing House, People’s Tree Bookshop, Rajiv Book House, Teksons Bookshop, The English Book Depot
Nankhatai is like the Indian English – foreign influence slapped, beaten, fermented and baked by Indians till it gets desified. Read more

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A bestselling author’s verdict.
They say one of the greatest simple joys you can experience is to become a tourist in your own city. Read more

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