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silent yet speaking… two chai drinkers
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
silent yet speaking… two chai drinkers
Dear Diary, on opening the pages of the first edition UK hardbound of Nabokov’s Lolita that i fished out yesterday from Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar, i found yellowing newspaper cuttings on diabetes, one of which is dated 1961…
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Dear Diary, on opening the pages of the first edition UK hardbound of Nabokov’s Lolita that i fished out yesterday from Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar, i found yellowing newspaper cuttings on diabetes, one of which is dated 1961…
As part of my mission to create the definitive encyclopedia of every street and nook in the historic Walled City of Old Delhi, here is Chaurasi Ghanta Chowk, the crossing of 84 bells… as my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
As part of my mission to create the definitive encyclopedia of every street and nook in the historic Walled City of Old Delhi, here is Chaurasi Ghanta Chowk, the crossing of 84 bells… as my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
portrait’s portrait-in-progress… the delhi walla archives from the year 2017
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
portrait’s portrait-in-progress… the delhi walla archives from the year 2017
With his workload of the day… Mohan Lal ji, a laundryman
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
With his workload of the day… Mohan Lal ji, a laundryman
on big city aloneness
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
on big city aloneness
Two faces in a drainage spill
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Two faces in a drainage spill
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