Discussing the book on GB Road. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] In February 2013, as part of the The Hindu Lit for Life literature festival, The Delhi Walla was invited to Chennai to talk about his book Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District. Chennai-based entrepreneur and activist Ranvir Shah conducted the session Mean Streets with me and Bombay-based Meenal Baghel, the author of Death in Mumbai. We both read out excerpts from our respective books after which Mr Shah asked us a few mean questions. Click here to watch the session on YouTube. In Chennai Available in book stores and shopping websites across India

Life in a red light district. [By Sukalp Sharma] Sukalp Sharma discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla in The Financial Express. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. I STILL found myself coming to the kotha, fascinated by the ordinary aspects of the lives of people who, I think, have been shepherded by circumstances into living extraordinary lives. It was in an attempt to seek signs of normalcy in an 'abnormal' world that I started to work on this book." Mayank Austen Soofi is well known in the Delhi circuit for his guidebooks to the city and his blog. But the opening lines of this

Life in a red light district. [By Vivek Tejuj] The Bombay-based literary blogger Vivek Tejuja, who manages Of Books and Reading, discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, on the news site IBN Live. Click here to read it on the website, or see below. I AM sure there have been many books written on the red light districts of the country. There are after all so many of them in every city, almost in hiding, in every nook. It is the world's oldest profession and it has been created by the world. So there are no sides that need to be taken. This is precisely what 'Nobody Can Love You

Life in a red light district. [By Mita Ghose] Mita Ghose discussed Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla in The Statesman daily. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. CAPTURED in black and white, it is a world of strange contradictions: cut-outs of a sage and a deity preside over shelves crowded with cosmetics and condoms; sunlight brings a whiff of the outdoors into a darkened room, only to paint prison-bar stripes on its floor. These snapshots by blogger and writer Mayank Austen Soofi offer haunting glimpses of a world that lies mere minutes from the New Delhi railway station. But few, other than prospective clients, venture

The unmean streets. [Text and photos by The Hindu] In February 2013, as part of the The Hindu Lit for Life literature festival, The Delhi Walla was invited to Chennai to talk about his book Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District. The Hindu later published a report on the said conversation. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. The brisk session on ‘Mean Streets’ on day two of the Lit for Life festival on Sunday, suitably ended like any good discussion should – raising more questions than answers, contemplation, rather than consensus. “When the author is dealing with material that is incredibly private, how does one get over the sense of the author as

Life in a red light district. [By Varsha Naik] Varsha Naik of the Bombay-based DNA newspaper talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. When I picked up this book, I expected something hard-hitting and jarring, something that would rattle me as I read it with it’s imagery and language. I was pleasantly surprised to discover instead a narrative that was graceful yet powerful, which moved me from within and left me thinking and blinking as the content sank in. Soofi submerges himself in the world of Kotha No. 300 on Delhi’s GB Road, and learns about the lives of

Life in the red light. [By Rito Paul] Rito Paul of the Bombay-based Mid Day newspaper talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the newspaper’s website, or see below. There is no authoritative explanation for the origin of the term ‘red light district’. It still lies shrouded in apocrypha and rumours, much like its inhabitants. Some mark the Red Light House saloon, an apparently famous brothel in the old American West, as the point of origin. Others speak of American rail-road workers who would allegedly hang their red lanterns on the windows of the brothels they frequented. Which, if any, of the explanations is correct, is

Life in the red light. [Text by Victoria Burrows; the above picture was mailed to The Delhi Walla by an unspecified person. If you are this image's photographer, kindly mail your name so that it can be credited] Victoria Burrows of the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi’s Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla. Click here to read it on the newspaper's website, or see below. The first full-length book on Delhi's red light district is not the gritty expose one might expect. Mayank Austen Soofi, author of the popular The Delhi Walla blog, has written an absorbing, readable book about his three-year-long quest to understand the sex workers

Life in the red light. [By Arunima Mazumdar] Arunima Mazumdar of Times of India talked about Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District, a book by The Delhi Walla, on the newspaper's website. Click here to read it, or see below. Lifeless posters of Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Amisha Patel and Mahima Chaudhary are plastered on the walls. They smile back at you from the cramped room that has never been graced by the sun's rays. Turn away from the walls and you'll find the living posters of Sushma, Nighat, Mamta, Roopa, Phalak and Fatima - roaming about idly or simply busy with daily chores. Welcome to life in GB Road, New Delhi's notorious red light district. Mayank Austen Soofi

Interview on Nobody Can Love You More. [The above photo is by Helena Kaartinen] Joanna Sugden at The Wall Street Journal's website talked to The Delhi Walla about his book Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District. Click here to read it on the newspaper's website, or see below. Mayank Austen Soofi spent three years documenting the lives of people living and working in Delhi’s red light district. His book “Nobody Can Love You More,” which has just been published by Penguin India, is a glimpse inside the world of the women, men and children who live in the brothels or kothas on Garstin Bastion Road in Old Delhi. The author tells The Wall Street Journal’s India Real Time how