India, Feb. 3 -- It was a pavement stall for used magazines. It had been standing on this spot for decades. One day last year, the stall didn't open. Weeks passed, the stall didn't open. Months passed, the stall didn't open.
This afternoon, the stall is open, standing at its usual spot on Connaught Lane, the pedestrian-friendly stretch connecting Kasturba Gandhi Marg to Janpath Road.
"I was unwell," stall proprietor Rakesh Kumar explains, giving reason for the long absence. The stall looks as rooted to the place as the sky above, making it difficult to believe that it was closed for half a year. As always, it is stacked with old issues of the New Yorker and Economist, along with a couple of UK Vogues, and one or two Architecture Digests, ...