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Business News > Mint Authors > Mayank Austen Soofi

Mayank Austen Soofi

ARTICLES BY MAYANK AUSTEN SOOFI

Mala Dayal at her home in Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

A lot of people were using my father: Mala Dayal

2 min read . 03 Jul 2018

‘Kun Faya Kun’ Chand Nizami (centre) with his nephews Shadab (in the foreground) and Sohrab. Photo: Mint

Kun Faya Kun’s love note to Rahman ‘saab’

4 min read . 03 Mar 2017

Anonymous tombs dot Hazrat Nizamuddin’s shrine. Photographs: Mayank Austen Soofi/Mint

The grave Sufis of Hazrat Nizamuddin

6 min read . 24 Feb 2017

A family having ‘noon chai’ with ‘lavasa’. Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi

Drinking Kashmir

1 min read . 27 Jan 2017

Zafar Mahal was built by Akbar II, one of the lesser-known Mughal emperors. Photos: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

The monumental Mehrauli indignity

4 min read . 21 Jan 2017

Traffic next to the park, above the Palika Bazar parking. Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi.

How to be a flaneur in car-free Connaught Place

7 min read . 14 Jan 2017

‘Qawwalis’ are performed at the Hazrat Nizamuddin ‘dargah’ every evening.

In Your City: New Delhi

2 min read . 13 Jan 2017

The Bennet sisters in BBC’s 1995 series: (from left, foreground) Susannah Harker (Jane), Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth), and (background) Julia Sawalha (Lydia), Lucy Briers (Mary), and Polly Maberly (Kitty). ((from left, foreground) Susannah Harker (Jane), Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth), and (background) Julia Sawalha (Lydia), Lucy Briers (Mary), and Polly Maberly (Kitty).)

The Jane Austen party on her 200th death anniversary

18 min read . 06 Jan 2017

Muhammed Sadiq uses various techniques to make a garland of notes. Photographs by Mayank Austen Soofi

The art of money

1 min read . 09 Dec 2016

A scene of daily life from Delhi’s LNJP Colony. Photos: Mayank Austen Soofi

Life in an illegal colony

8 min read . 26 Nov 2016

Arjun Sagar Gupta. Photographs: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

The Piano Man: Hottest jazz place in Delhi

6 min read . 18 Nov 2016

A masked shopper in Khan Market. Photographs: Mayank Austen Soofi

Oh Ghalib! Give us a verse for Delhi smog

8 min read . 10 Nov 2016

A woman posing with Arundhati Roy’s novel. Photographs by Mayank Austen Soofi/Mint

Small things of utmost happiness

4 min read . 29 Oct 2016

The tradition of ‘Phool Waalon Ki Sair’ was begun by a little-known Mughal queen, Akbar Shah II’s wife Mumtaz Mahal Begum. Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi

If it’s October, it must be Mehrauli

2 min read . 13 Oct 2016

The interior of Café De Art. Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi/Mint

In your city

3 min read . 07 Oct 2016

Rupin Walter Desai in his house. Photos: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Hamlet, the prince of East Patel Nagar

6 min read . 01 Oct 2016

The renovated Bikaner House. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint.

In your city

4 min read . 23 Sept 2016

The sprawling greens of Mausam Bhawan are home to about a dozen peacocks. Photo: Mayank Austen Soofi

Exposure: Caught on camera

1 min read . 16 Sept 2016

A street in the paper market. Photos: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The rusty papery Old city

5 min read . 16 Sept 2016

Hazrat Nizamuddin’s shrine. Photographs: Mayank Austen Soofi/Mint

Ladies are allowed inside

6 min read . 08 Sept 2016