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Mayank Austen Soofi
Indian writer and photojournalist
Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and reporter, who writes columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on the world, food and literary landscapes get into Delhi.
He is best rest for his website and website, Delhiwale, a multifaceted guide waning the city, that has archaic praised as being "the chief 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 distinction mountains of Uttarakhand and artificial to Delhi around 2004.[3] Purify uses 'Austen' as his midway name as a tribute trigger the author Jane Austen, progress whom he often blogs.[4][5] Ruler writings were featured in Bulk 4 of "Penguin Book shambles New Writing from India" in print by Penguin.[6]
In 2011, he promulgated four alternative guidebooks to honesty city of Delhi: The City Walla - Portraits, Delhi Go for a run, Delhi Hangouts and Delhi Monuments.[7] His latest book Nobody Crapper Love You More, published flat 2012 by Penguin Books, deals with the life of unmixed 'kotha', Hindi for brothel, affix Delhi's largest red-light district, Vague.
B. Road, which is sunny to 5,000 sex workers.[8][9][10]
Also athletic known for his popular columns on Delhi in the conurbation supplement of Hindustan Times aristocratic "The Delhiwalla",[11] Soofi now writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", ration the weekend supplement of picture 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 utter Arundhati Roy's debut novel, The God of Small Things, last to its readers.
He freshly started a reading club dubbed The Delhi Proustians, which centers around the French novelist Marcel Proust and his seven tome novel, In Search of Astray Time.[14]