Mayank Soofi

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Visit Delhi's hidden Martello Tower today, a relic from British rule, as Bloomsday celebrations unfold in Dublin, honoring James Joyce's "Ulysses." Good morning, 16 June! Today is the day to visit a rarely-visited Delhi monument. It stands in Daryaganj, but lies hidden behind the remains of the mostly vanished Walled City wall. Built as a defensive fortification by the British following our first war of independence, it is called Martello Tower.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Seen the Martello. Got the soap from Sweny’s. Yay, I’m in Dublin! Gradually ticking things off the list. Thalatta! Thalatta! Next on the agenda—throwing pieces of Banbury cakes to the Liffey gulls. Friendly greetings from a Joycean pilgrim. My dream of celebrating Bloomsday in Bloom’s city is just about to happen. After voyaging 5,000 miles over Asia and Europe (no Scylla or Charybdis—just airplane snacks), I landed two days ago. Switched the masala English for the Irish sing-song.

2 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Mayank Soofi

India, June 14 -- Years after poet Ghalib's passing, the beautiful doorway of his last haveli in the Walled City was carefully dismantled from its surrounding wall of old-fashioned lakhori bricks, and installed as a primary exhibit in the museum celebrating his life and works. But you can never see that door because. well, the story's not true. The final residence of Delhi's great literary figure actually fell into dereliction. At one point, it was used as a coal warehouse.

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Years after poet Ghalib’s passing, the beautiful doorway of his last haveli in the Walled City was carefully dismantled from its surrounding wall of old-fashioned lakhori bricks, and installed as a primary exhibit in the museum celebrating his life and works. But you can never see that door because… well, the story’s not true. The final residence of Delhi’s great literary figure actually fell into dereliction. At one point, it was used as a coal warehouse.

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

After flying 5,000 miles from Delhi, this reporter landed two days ago in Dublin. The Ireland capital is the legendary setting of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, the great modernist novel that entirely unfolds within a day—16 June. The date is celebrated worldwide as Bloomsday, named after the novel’s hero. To celebrate arguably the world’s greatest city-novel, Delhiwale is briefly becoming Dublinwale.