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midnight’s megapolis
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
midnight’s megapolis
one smoggy night, some citizens breathing in the city’s toxic air
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
one smoggy night, some citizens breathing in the city’s toxic air
there he goes… the hawker of other people’s happiness
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
there he goes… the hawker of other people’s happiness
man with beard, man with out beard
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
man with beard, man with out beard
because the staircase is more than just a fire exit
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
because the staircase is more than just a fire exit
ordinary evening expanding into Home… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
ordinary evening expanding into Home… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
Once in seven evenings… Sunday sun is setting
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Once in seven evenings… Sunday sun is setting
self-portrait with Emily Dickinson, delhi
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
self-portrait with Emily Dickinson, delhi
Every year, Delhi gives us the golden-yellow blossoms of Amaltas. But Amaltas blooms only in summer… so let us be thankful to citizen Shadab ji for evoking this smoggy winter the memory of long-gone Amaltas
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Every year, Delhi gives us the golden-yellow blossoms of Amaltas. But Amaltas blooms only in summer… so let us be thankful to citizen Shadab ji for evoking this smoggy winter the memory of long-gone Amaltas
“The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee”… on coming face-to-face with an Emily Dickinson poem
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee”… on coming face-to-face with an Emily Dickinson poem
Mobile’s mate… an excerpt from Blue Door Notes
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Mobile’s mate… an excerpt from Blue Door Notes
“Hope you will find this intellectually stimulating—21st May 85”—on finding a handwritten inscription in a evocative Dostoevsky hardbound… at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“Hope you will find this intellectually stimulating—21st May 85”—on finding a handwritten inscription in a evocative Dostoevsky hardbound… at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
Dear God, after i die, please please let my ghost come here every Sunday … at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Dear God, after i die, please please let my ghost come here every Sunday … at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
Let us be grateful to our necessary book angels… Citizen Dilshad ji laying his bookstall at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Let us be grateful to our necessary book angels… Citizen Dilshad ji laying his bookstall at Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar
O MY GOD!!!! Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita – First UK Hardbound! Just now i spotted with bookseller Farooq ji—I GOT IT! For the price of McDonald’s Happy Meal!… at the one and only Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar!
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
O MY GOD!!!! Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita – First UK Hardbound! Just now i spotted with bookseller Farooq ji—I GOT IT! For the price of McDonald’s Happy Meal!… at the one and only Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar!
Great photographer Margaret Bourke-White clicked Gandhi’s greatest photo! Plus many tragic images of the Indian partition. Books on her are almost impossible to find! Just now i spotted with bookseller Mahesh ji a Bourke-White… at the one and only Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar!
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Great photographer Margaret Bourke-White clicked Gandhi’s greatest photo! Plus many tragic images of the Indian partition. Books on her are almost impossible to find! Just now i spotted with bookseller Mahesh ji a Bourke-White… at the one and only Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar!
Like week’s worth of fears fleeing… complacencies of a Sunday morning
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Like week’s worth of fears fleeing… complacencies of a Sunday morning
flying chair
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
flying chair
like a feel of moveable feast
November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
like a feel of moveable feast
because one then perceives a clearer distillation of one’s own unhappiness… on seeing other people’s happiness
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
because one then perceives a clearer distillation of one’s own unhappiness… on seeing other people’s happiness
On the cycle of time
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On the cycle of time
on big city aloneness
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
on big city aloneness
Like a guardian-angel of Connaught Place… Sher Khan, the handsome
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Like a guardian-angel of Connaught Place… Sher Khan, the handsome
this sacred moment of the morning… when a bookseller reverently touches the floor of his bookstore as it opens for the day
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
this sacred moment of the morning… when a bookseller reverently touches the floor of his bookstore as it opens for the day
We, the Like-Minded & Like-Hearted… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
We, the Like-Minded & Like-Hearted… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya