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Delhiwale: When CP stalks our October shadows

India, Oct. 20 -- A man is walking in Connaught Place. He is in the Inner Circle. White columns line his path. The columns were built during British rule, along with CP's original buildings. The man's... Read More


When CP stalks our October shadows

India, Oct. 20 -- A man is walking in Connaught Place. He is in the Inner Circle. White columns line his path. The columns were built during British rule, along with CP's original buildings. The man's... Read More


Speaking from the heart

India, Oct. 19 -- This weekday evening too, Asghari Begum is busy at work. She collects discarded things from the city's footpaths and also doubles as an unofficial parking attendant at an informal ro... Read More


Delhiwale: Speaking from the heart

India, Oct. 18 -- This weekday evening too, Asghari Begum is busy at work. She collects discarded things from the city's footpaths and also doubles as an unofficial parking attendant at an informal ro... Read More


This way to Gali Sakko Wali

India, Oct. 17 -- All the doors on both sides of the lane are shut. A couple have cobwebs around their locks and latches, suggesting they haven't been touched for a long time. This pre-dawn morning, o... Read More


Paradise Lost, or lost time regained

India, Oct. 15 -- One long-ago afternoon, a woman in a Central Delhi cafe got up from her table and walked towards the bakery counter. She suddenly turned around and began moving her arms. "Look, I'm ... Read More


Delhiwale: Jantar Mantar plus

India, Oct. 13 -- One evening, citizens dressed purposefully in black gather at Central Delhi's Jantar Mantar. They light candles to protest the Supreme Court decision to reverse a High Court judgment... Read More


Delhiwale: CP surrealism

India, Oct. 12 -- Oh, the Regal cinema building! The world its passageway shelters! The softy stall named Everyone's Happiness Place, the longtime burger outlet but now shut for months, the vendors ha... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Katra Gokul Shah

India, Oct. 10 -- It is five in the morning, and the sky is still black. A crescent moon is visible in the narrow wedge of sky between the house roofs. Lamplight is falling on the shutters, leaving st... Read More


Delhiwale: Paradise Lost, or lost time regained

India, Oct. 9 -- The bookseller is reading the print edition of The New York Review of Books. A rotating shelf in front of his cluttered desk holds fiction. Shelves at the back hold travel books, incl... Read More