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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


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


To the ends of the earth

India, Oct. 8 -- Bunches of bananas are hanging at the patriotically named Indian Juice Corner, with ananas stacked beneath a sign for mango shake. Next door are the stalls of Bombay Famous Nagori Tea... Read More


Delhiwale: A Jantar Mantar secret

India, Oct. 7 -- This Monday evening, yellow police barricades stand beneath the trees beside Jantar Mantar, in Central Delhi. Men in blue camouflage linger by a banner warning against "any public gat... Read More


A Jantar Mantar secret

India, Oct. 7 -- This Monday evening, yellow police barricades stand beneath the trees beside Jantar Mantar, in Central Delhi. Men in blue camouflage linger by a banner warning against "any public gat... Read More


Delhiwale: Arc of a life

India, Oct. 5 -- This dusty afternoon, Shiv Kumar, a rickshaw puller, is waiting for customers outside a bus stand in Ballabgarh, Faridabad, in the National Capital Region. He graciously agrees to tak... Read More


Arc of a life

India, Oct. 5 -- This dusty afternoon, Shiv Kumar, a rickshaw puller, is waiting for customers outside a bus stand in Ballabgarh, Faridabad, in the National Capital Region. He graciously agrees to tak... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Gali Chah Rahat

India, Oct. 3 -- The name could belong to a resort spa. In bolchal Hindi, chah means desire, and rahat means relief. Presto, Gali Chah Rahat ought to be a place to recover from the exhaustion of daily... Read More