Poet’s image… acquired some weeks ago from Delhi’s supercool Sunday Book Bazar

Delhiwale: Chandni Chowk Arbour hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-n… mayank austen soofi—InshaJoyce ✍️

Cartier-Bresson In Paris… i-me in Paris

rainy day retrospects

on the domestic charm of the print edition

gmail’s grandmother

midnight’s flower seller

Guard with Moon… or, Twelve A.M., 2025 by Edward Hopper

On the Kismet of Rose… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya

a drinking water well… that works well for a city

📍 Delhiwale: Viceroy Minto’s memorial The blue sky is smudged with puffs of clouds, and with dozens of birds. This scene is painted across the underpass ceiling. Originally named after a British viceroy, Minto Bridge rail underpass links Connaught Place with New Delhi railway

Viceroy Minto’s memorial… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!

At work, labourer Mahesh ji

Despite being just another aged infrastructure utility, Delhi’s Minto Bridge is super-special. It epitomises the Indian capital’s failure to serve basic services to its honest hardworking tax-paying citizens… my on-the-ground under-the-bridge dispatch—please read!

“Happy Birthday, Gorgeous!”… I don’t know this lady but this beautifully and poignantly written homage appears every year this day in the newspaper’s obituary page.

Jama Magic Masjid Realism, Delhi

one’s arm gently steering the other’s arm… that’s what friends are for

Samosa Stall Tree… Delhi Arbor, Kasturba Gandhi Road, Somewhere in August

floored by flooring

good morning lune… evening moonrise