As part of my mission to create the definitive encyclopedia of every place in the historic Walled City of Old Delhi, here is Rue du Gali Hakim Boali … as my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!

The Print Edition Ambassador… Hari Om ji, a door-to-door newspaper delivery man

bird kissing the sun

in heavy light… lives

leaf-taking ceremony, a portrait

Champs-Élysées de la Trees… Delhi Arbor, Barakhamba, Somewhere in October

This weekend is the 722nd urs, or death anniversary celebrations, of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya! The 14th century Sufi shrine has increasingly seeped into the city’s popular culture. I tell you why this place is a center of Indian literature, history, architecture, music!

while you were sleeping

separated by a distance of several years… two windows

In the courtyard of literature, history, architecture, music… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!

City by the Dead Sea

suspended snowflake

because the staircase is more than just a fire exit

And then the moon stripped his sleeve and showed his scars

gloom taller than joy… see

Nobody looking at the beautiful moon… look!

Because the world is round… Shanky ji, a restaurant staffer, with freshly fried bhathura

Homely Evening… at the Sufi Shrine of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya

Delhi streets are extraordinarily kaleidoscopic. Each shift of the eyes shows something different. This afternoon, the gaze is held hostage by a thing that has never ever been seen before, at least by me in the many years of strolling along the city streets... my dispatch!

And then the great Paul Gaugin painted over the black & white Delhi scene

Presentiment is that long shadow on the wall… indicative that suns go down

In a megapolis of millions, a proverbial table for one… Albela ji, a bookstore staffer

Champs-Élysées de la Trees… Delhi Arbor, Barakhamba, Somewhere in October

two solitary souls… a citizen and a cloud

Soothing winter light… a slice of early October, Delhi

Big wonder—a most uncommon street stall… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!

shh, i am eating my street corner

“Will I stop reading poetry on the subway?”… i love this little bit of news report, so much so that i made a cutting of it, all those years ago when i first came across it, and keep the clip in my pocket all the time—thank god for the print edition!

one of the 13 ways of looking at a black bird

Rain Tree… Delhi Arbor, Connaught Place, Somewhere in Delhi