Read the walls

One way of investigating a locality’s intimate life

- Mayank Austen Soofi

Are you among one of those who like snooping around a neighbourhood's intimate life? Wanting to sniff out the pursuits and concerns of the locality, its hopes and aspirations, and secrets.

All you have to do is to read the neighbourhood’s walls. Particularly the flyers that lie stuck on the grimy peeling concrete of those walls. The very flyers that are replenished with fresher flyers in predictable regularity. New flyers stuck on old flyers.

This strategy works well for the gateway guarding the entrance to south Delhi's historic Chirag Dilli village. The gateway has no name. The locals refer to it as khandahar, ruin. Whatever, sample the flyers pasted on the rugged walls.

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