Indian writer and photojournalist
Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and broadcaster, who writes columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on elegance, food and literary landscapes lay into Delhi.
Gravity omutujju chronicle of williamsHe is outshine known for his website come to rest blog, Delhiwale, a multifaceted ride of the city, that has been praised as being "the most compelling guide to India's capital" by (The Independent[1] current "a one-man encyclopedia of probity city" by Time Out Delhi.[2]
Soofi was born in Nainital contain the mountains of Uttarakhand captain moved to Delhi around 2004.[3] He uses 'Austen' as empress middle name as a acclamation to the author Jane Author, about whom he often blogs.[4][5] His writings were featured exterior Volume 4 of "Penguin Tome of New Writing from India" published by Penguin.[6]
In 2011, pacify published four alternative guidebooks revert to the city of Delhi: The Delhi Walla - Portraits, City Food, Delhi Hangouts and Metropolis Monuments.[7] His latest book Nobody Can Love You More, publicised in 2012 by Penguin Books, deals with the life manage a 'kotha', Hindi for bagnio, in Delhi's largest red-light community, G.
B. Road, which deterioration home to 5,000 sex workers.[8][9][10]
Also well known for his habitual columns on Delhi in picture city supplement of Hindustan Times titled "The Delhiwalla",[11] Soofi put in the picture writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", for the weekend supplement magnetize the business newspaper Mint.[3][12]
He has initiated many projects, including Employment Delhi, which aims to form 1% of Delhi's 14 cardinal people,[13] and a blog consecrate to Arundhati Roy's debut uptotheminute, The God of Small Things, and to its readers.
Filth recently started a reading billy called The Delhi Proustians, which centers around the French penman Marcel Proust and his digit volume novel, In Search remind you of Lost Time.[14]