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Name
  
Mayank Soofi


Role
  
Writer


Books
  
Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District, The Delhi Walla Hangouts, Delhi Walla

Similar People
  
Sadia Dehlvi, Nizamuddin Auliya, Arundhati Roy, Rakhshanda Jalil

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Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and photojournalist, who writes popular columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on culture, food and literary landscapes of Delhi.

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He is best known for his website and blog, The Delhi Walla, a multifaceted guide of the city, that has been praised as being "the most compelling guide to India’s capital" (The Independent) and "a one-man encyclopedia of the city" (Time Out Delhi).

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Biography

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Soofi was born in Nainital in the mountains of Uttarakhand and moved to Delhi around 2004. He uses 'Austen' as his middle name as a tribute to the author Jane Austen, about whom he often blogs. His writings were featured in Volume 4 of "Penguin Book of New Writing from India" published by Penguin.

In 2011, he published four alternative guidebooks to the city of Delhi: The Delhi Walla - Portraits, Delhi Food, Delhi Hangouts and Delhi Monuments. His latest book Nobody Can Love You More, published in 2012 by Penguin Books, deals with the life of a 'kotha', Hindi for brothel, in Delhi's largest red-light district, G. B. Road, which is home to 5,000 sex workers.

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Also well known for his popular columns on Delhi in the city supplement of Hindustan Times titled "The Delhiwalla", Soofi now writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", for the weekend supplement of the business newspaper Mint.

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He has initiated many projects, including Mission Delhi, which aims to profile 1% of Delhi's 14 million people, and a blog dedicated to Arundhati Roy's debut novel, The God of Small Things, and to its readers. He recently started a reading club called The Delhi Proustians, which centers around the French novelist Marcel Proust and his seven volume novel, In Search of Lost Time.

Works

  • The Delhi Walla: Delhi Monuments - HarperCollins, 2011. (ISBN 978-9-350-29005-7)
  • The Delhi Walla: Delhi Hangouts - HarperCollins, 2011. (ISBN 978-9-350-29006-4)
  • The Delhi Walla: Delhi Food+Drink - HarperCollins, 2011. (ISBN 978-9-350-29004-0)
  • The Delhi Walla: Portraits - HarperCollins, 2011. (ISBN 978-9-350-29064-4)
  • Nobody Can Love You More - Penguin Books, 2012. (ISBN 978-0-670-08414-2)
  • References

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