Mayank Soofi

6 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Among many other avatars, Delhi is also a city of mystics. It is known as ‘Bais khwaja ki chaukhat’, the threshold of 22 Sufi gurus. This week, and the next, the city celebrates the death anniversary of two of those mystics. One is world-famous, the other isn’t known much even within the city. One might naturally wonder about rejoicing over a death. The inevitability has a less mournful connotation in Sufism, where a fakir’s passing is not mourned, but celebrated.

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

So much romantic myth is weaved around the creation of this dessert. Legend has it that pure white buffalo milk is whisked late in the night, or perhaps early, pre-dawn. Whenever, the whisking has to be done under a full moon sky. Only then does the fresh dew condense finely on the resulting froth; which then goes on to become the most dreamlike of all the delicacies hawked along Delhi streets—and this last point is no myth. Sadly, Daulat Ki Chaat is a winter guest, too frail for the heatwaves.

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Intro: A market landmark in fruit-bearing phase Cacao cacao cacao… the chant is discordant, yet extraordinarily soft and musical. The source of the soaring sound happens to be one of the market trees, here in a plaza in south Delhi’s New Friends Colony Community Centre. The tree stands across the lane from Nathu Sweets. This is actually the incessant twittering of birds. The mass warble isn’t slowing down for even a moment’s respite.

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Mayank Soofi

Intro: A novel way to experience the historic shopping plaza In Dante’s Inferno, Hell has nine concentric circles, each denoting a separate level of sin and punishment. In Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP), the colonial-era shopping haven has four concentric circles, each denoting a separate level of experience. Last week, the first of these circles was tracked. It runs along CP’s heart-core: the Central Park. The second circle is separated from the first by a circular road.

1 week ago | htsyndication.com | Mayank Soofi

India, April 16 -- In Dante's Inferno, Hell has nine concentric circles, each denoting a separate level of sin and punishment. In Delhi's Connaught Place (CP), the colonial-era shopping haven has four concentric circles, each denoting a separate level of experience. Last week, the first of these circles was tracked. It runs along CP's heart-core: the Central Park. The second circle is separated from the first by a circular road.