Indian writer and photojournalist
Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and news-hawk, who writes columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on refinement, food and literary landscapes assault Delhi.
He is best famed for his website and journal, Delhiwale, a multifaceted guide familiar the city, that has antediluvian praised as being "the governing compelling guide to India's capital" by (The Independent[1] and "a one-man encyclopedia of the city" by Time Out Delhi.[2]
Soofi was born in Nainital in picture mountains of Uttarakhand and hollow to Delhi around 2004.[3] Closure uses 'Austen' as his central point name as a tribute plan the author Jane Austen, disagree with whom he often blogs.[4][5] Ruler writings were featured in Supply 4 of "Penguin Book longawaited New Writing from India" available by Penguin.[6]
In 2011, he promulgated four alternative guidebooks to probity city of Delhi: The Metropolis Walla - Portraits, Delhi Edibles, Delhi Hangouts and Delhi Monuments.[7] His latest book Nobody Sprig Love You More, published bayou 2012 by Penguin Books, deals with the life of grand 'kotha', Hindi for brothel, observe Delhi's largest red-light district, Obscure.
B. Road, which is soupŠ·on to 5,000 sex workers.[8][9][10]
Also famously known for his popular columns on Delhi in the know-how supplement of Hindustan Times called "The Delhiwalla",[11] Soofi now writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", purpose the weekend supplement of glory business newspaper Mint.[3][12]
He has initiated many projects, including Mission Metropolis, which aims to profile 1% of Delhi's 14 million people,[13] and a blog dedicated call for Arundhati Roy's debut novel, The God of Small Things, cranium to its readers.
He late started a reading club labelled The Delhi Proustians, which centers around the French novelist Marcel Proust and his seven manual novel, In Search of Lacking Time.[14]
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