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things that disappear without announcement

The chai stall outside the office building was there on a Wednesday and gone by Thursday. No notice. The spot is just a bit of pav…

#city#change#essay

— Ira ChaudharyAug 16, 2026

return to a city

I returned to the city, after ten years, and everything felt different, the streets, the buildings, the people, it was all so fami…

#city#memory#change

— Rehan QureshiAug 9, 2026

on the day Chandni Chowk felt like mine

I've lived in this city for six years. Chandni Chowk, which is technically everyone's, has never felt like mine. Too crowded, too…

#delhi#chandni chowk#city

— AnonymousAug 3, 2026

the man who fixed my screen

He runs a phone repair stall outside the Nehru Place metro exit. The stall is a folding table under an umbrella with a sign in mar…

#delhi#essay#city

— AnonymousAug 1, 2026

the rickshaw fare

Forty rupees he wanted from the INA market to my flat, which is a twelve-minute walk I have done a hundred times but today I was c…

#delhi#autorickshaw#city

— Ira ChaudharyJun 30, 2026

the 8:12 from Rajiv Chowk

There is a woman who boards at Rajiv Chowk every weekday at 8:12am and eats a paratha from a steel tiffin she carries in a cloth b…

#delhi#metro#city

— Ira ChaudharyJun 27, 2026

the crossing at Connaught Place

At five-thirty, the inner circle. Everyone moving, nobody quite looking at anyone else, but everyone aware of everyone else. The a…

#delhi#city#observation

— AnonymousJun 21, 2026

cutting chai and other constants

Suresh bhaiya sets up his cart at 7:45am exactly, at the corner where the service lane meets the main road outside our office buil…

#delhi#chai#city

— Ira ChaudharyJun 18, 2026

returning to a city

I walked through the streets, feeling like a ghost, invisible and unseen. The city was just as I had left it, the same sounds, the…

#city#disconnection#change

— Rehan QureshiJun 18, 2026