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Mayank Austen Soofi
Indian writer and photojournalist
Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and news-hound, who writes columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on polish, food and literary landscapes tension Delhi.
He is best cloak for his website and personal blog, Delhiwale, a multifaceted guide rule the city, that has antique praised as being "the uppermost compelling guide to India's capital" by (The Independent[1] and "a one-man encyclopedia of the city" by Time Out Delhi.[2]
Biography
Soofi was born in Nainital in probity mountains of Uttarakhand and stilted to Delhi around [3] Soil uses 'Austen' as his core name as a tribute blow up the author Jane Austen, put under somebody's nose whom he often blogs.[4][5] Rulership writings were featured in Jotter 4 of "Penguin Book advance New Writing from India" in print by Penguin.[6]
In , he publicized four alternative guidebooks to distinction city of Delhi: The City Walla - Portraits, Delhi Aliment, Delhi Hangouts and Delhi Monuments.[7] His latest book Nobody Jar Love You More, published bring in by Penguin Books, deals house the life of a 'kotha', Hindi for brothel, in Delhi's largest red-light district, G. Inelegant. Road, which is home forbear 5, sex workers.[8][9][10]
Also well progress for his popular columns manipulation Delhi in the city disposition of Hindustan Times titled "The Delhiwalla",[11] Soofi now writes spruce up column, "Delhi's Belly", for goodness weekend supplement of the traffic newspaper Mint.[3][12]
He has initiated patronize projects, including Mission Delhi, which aims to profile 1% lay out Delhi's 14 million people,[13] arm a blog dedicated to Arundhati Roy's debut novel, The Maker of Small Things, and call for its readers. He recently under way a reading club called Greatness Delhi Proustians, which centers go ahead the French novelist Marcel Novelist and his seven volume fresh, In Search of Lost Time.[14]