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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
citizen carrying goat food
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
i want his life… Josh ji—who is always reading Ulysses, saw him in James Joyce’s Dublin, 2025
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
everything comes, everything goes…. today moving past a rock solid yesterday—see!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
on the kismet of rose
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
portrait of a timekeeper
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Citizen trying to escape from the summer sun’s burning glare, Delhi
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Citizens oppressed by summer’s extreme heat, Delhi
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
going with the goat
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
in the summer’s extremest heat… citizens in consoling shade, citizens in punishing sun
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It is 43 degrees in Delhi… but the hyperlocal tea houses stay busy!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Plan of action for today: buy a new stock of Tegretol 300, get a shave at Bhai Wali’s, search for fresh sightings of Amaltas blossoms (see photo!), forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my city, try the new Daniyal Mueenuddin that Sanjeev was gushing about
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
food of delhi, still life
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Summertime breeze blowing through Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar, May 2026
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“One by one we are all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age…” luv u Michael Furey—lINSHAJOYCE!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A portrait of the poet as a DTC bus driver… my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
silent and far apart… two lives
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Short distance relationship can work but it’s not easy
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
as he walked down the avenue and felt the bluish-orange morning light falling about the tired sad city and smelt the strange pungent smell of the strewn garbage and of the discarded plastic glasses beside the chai stalls, his soul was further entrenched of her miseries
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sleep coming to him like money to millionaires… portrait of a dog at night
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
two of the 13 ways of looking at the black bird… in stillness & in flight
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
and she tore the letter into 101 pieces… on the kismet of rose
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
dear diary i love many writers but when i read joyce i feel freshly empowered as if i can survive one more day and also the day after… INSHAJOYCE!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“And Bloom letting on to be awfully deeply interested in nothing, a spider’s web in the corner behind the barrel, and the citizen scowling after him and the old dog at his feet looking up to know who to bite and when”… James Joyce on writerly gaze
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
portrait of a backstabber, delhi, 2026
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The one ruined by reading… at Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
in the architecture of light… seeing the shape of sunshine on a sunday
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“My soul frets in the shadow of his language”… that’s what i always feel when i , a Hindi-English speaking Indian, talks in English to somebody from England—and today i see that feeling congealed into solid by who else but our very own INSHAJOYCE!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
workday hours exposed to extreme heat—when no consolation can be a sufficient consolation… amaltas sighting, delhi
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the freedom and power of his soul, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable, imperishable”… INSHAJOYCE
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
on a kitchen cook’s perspective of the big wide world
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
on the taming of the heat… summertime veil
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Vermeer’s Man with a Pearl Fingerring
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
on the bird-shaped hole in the sky
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
hyperlocal cinema… after the day’s last show ends
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
chai mates
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
silently chatting… two lives
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
hello sir, need your tailor master’s contact
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
fleeting yellow and everlasting blue… amaltas sighting on a horridly hot afternoon, delhi
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
by the grave of taak… a disappearing element in hyperlocal architecture
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
return of the ice age… summertime portrait of Citizen Raja ji
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
the street getting new underground water pipes… the labourers working in summer afternoon’s horrid heat
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
as cutting as ice… this summer light
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
As his novel enterprises fell to pieces, he returned to his wanderings across the city, the deserted summer afternoons leading him from street to street as they had led him years before to nothing
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
great grandfather’s mail inbox
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
As part of my mission to create the definitive encyclopedia of every street and nook in the historic Walled City of Old Delhi, here is Rue du Chatta Abdul Hakeem… as my daily City Life dispatch in Hindustan Times today!
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
possessions, still life
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
measure for measure… chai for tea
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
while you were sleeping… good morning, sir
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
monument at night… moment at night
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thedelhiwalla.bsky.social @thedelhiwalla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
city lights… amaltas sighting at midnight, delhi
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