Hindustan Times
Best-selling novelist introduces The Delhi Walla books
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, October 18, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Filed under The Delhi Walla · Tagged Advaita Kala, Almost Single, Anjaana Anjaani, Chanakya movie hall, delhi, Delhiwallas, Gurgaon, independence day, Mayank Austen Soofi, South America
Being Indian in the Indian capital
He is half Delhiwalla but the 18-year-old Mr Peerzada Shah Fahad avoids the label. He may have two homes but he says he belongs to only one.
Mr Fahad’s handicraft trader father has a six-room house in Srinagar but each winter they migrate to this four-room rented apartment in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar, home to Kashmiris, Afghans amongst others. Here Mr Fahad has made many ‘Indian’ friends. Here his older brother is a call centre executive in Gurgaon. But Mr Fahad doesn’t think he is an Indian, much less a Delhiwalla, thank you very much. Read more
(13 votes, average: 3.23 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Mayank Austen Soofi on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Filed under Musings · Tagged Delhiwalla, Gurgaon, Indian, Indian Capital, Kashmiris
