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Delhiwale: Passions of Dilli rains, in inversion

India, Sept. 7 -- A rain puddle is lying on the stone floor of Fatehpuri Masjid, this evening here in Old Delhi. The rain had stopped some hours ago. In the unmoving water stands one of the mosque's d... Read More


Passions of Dilli rains, in inversion

India, Sept. 7 -- A rain puddle is lying on the stone floor of Fatehpuri Masjid, this evening here in Old Delhi. The rain had stopped some hours ago. In the unmoving water stands one of the mosque's d... Read More


Passions of Dilli rains, in inversion

India, Sept. 7 -- A rain puddle is lying on the stone floor of Fatehpuri Masjid, this evening here in Old Delhi. The rain had stopped some hours ago. In the unmoving water stands one of the mosque's d... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Gali Godoya

India, Sept. 5 -- As part of the Walled City encyclopaedia Lakshmi is standing at her doorway, talking. This is her break between two shifts. She cooks vegetarian food twice a day in a large mansion ... Read More


This way to Gali Godoya

India, Sept. 5 -- Lakshmi is standing at her doorway, talking. This is her break between two shifts. She cooks vegetarian food twice a day in a large mansion not far from here. Her mother-in-law worke... Read More


A village's village days

India, Sept. 4 -- Once upon a time, there was Twice Upon a Time. In 1987, entrepreneur Bina Ramani "discovered" Hauz Khas Village, as she recalls in one of her Instagram posts, and soon afterwards ope... Read More


A tale of two colours

India, Sept. 2 -- It is changing again. The Sufi shrine of Hazrat Sarmad Shahid and Hazrat Hare Bhare Shah lies in a small chamber at the foot of Old Delhi's Jama Masjid. This time, look up. The ceili... Read More


Delhiwale: The Nepal amidst us

India, Sept. 1 -- In the relatively inexpensive rooms of South Delhi's Chirag Delhi village, young working people from Nepal live alongside residents from other parts of the country. Nepali is heard i... Read More


The Nepal amidst us

India, Sept. 1 -- In the relatively inexpensive rooms of South Delhi's Chirag Delhi village, young working people from Nepal live alongside residents from other parts of the country. Nepali is heard i... Read More


Delhiwale: This way to Gali Qasim Jan

India, Aug. 29 -- Poetry in some form is everywhere in Gali Qasim Jan. Not the poetry of Mirza Ghalib, who spent his last years on this Old Delhi street, but the poetry of shop names. De Cut Salon. Ti... Read More