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| occupation = Writer, blogger, and [[photojournalist]]
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'''Mayank Austen Soofi''' is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and [[photojournalist]], who writes popular columns for ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and ''[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]'' on culture, food and literary landscapes of Delhi.

He is best known for his website and blog, ''The Delhi Walla'', a multifaceted guide of the city, that has been praised as being "the most compelling guide to India's capital" (The Independent)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/19/the-delhi-walla-the-most-compelling-guide-to-indias-capital |title=The Delhi Walla – the most compelling guide to India's capital |author=Andrew Buncombe |work=The Independent |date= |accessdate=14 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328045105/http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/19/the-delhi-walla-the-most-compelling-guide-to-indias-capital/ |archive-date=28 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and "a one-man encyclopedia of the city" (Time Out Delhi).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/mayank-austen-soofi/article4344165.ece |title=Mayank Austen Soofi |work=The Hindu |date=28 January 2013 |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref>

==Biography==
Soofi was born in [[Nainital]] in the mountains of [[Uttarakhand]] and moved to Delhi around 2004.<ref name=must/> He uses 'Austen' as his middle name as a tribute to the author [[Jane Austen]], about whom he often blogs.<ref name="DowHanson2012">{{cite book|last1=Dow|first1=Gillian|last2=Hanson|first2=Clare|title=Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kv7oG2QjRd4C&pg=PA25|year=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-16481-0|pages=25–}}</ref><ref name="Harman2007">{{cite book|last=Harman|first=Claire|title=Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWUhkVez-fAC&pg=PA5|year=2007|publisher=Canongate Books|isbn=978-1-84767-578-1|page=5}}</ref> His writings were featured in Volume 4 of "Penguin Book of New Writing from India" published by [[Penguin India|Penguin]].<ref>{{cite book|title=First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcsPxaY4hGcC&pg=PA1|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-341551-0|page=1}}</ref>

In 2011, he published four alternative guidebooks to the city of Delhi: ''The Delhi Walla - Portraits, Delhi Food, Delhi Hangouts and Delhi Monuments''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-719/2012/january/1/oh-that-taste-of-delhi.html |title=Oh, That Taste of Delhi! |publisher=Thebookreviewindia.org |date=1 January 2012 |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref>
His latest book ''Nobody Can Love You More'', published in 2012 by Penguin Books, deals with the life of a 'kotha', Hindi for brothel, in Delhi's largest red-light district, [[G. B. Road]], which is home to 5,000 sex workers.<ref>{{cite web|author=Varsha Naik |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review-book-review-nobody-can-love-you-more-life-in-delhis-red-light-district-1790033 |title=Book review: Nobody Can Love You More- Life in Delhi’s Red Light District |publisher=DNA, India |date=18 January 2013 |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = The author as a voyeur and many other questions|work=The Hindu| url = http://www.thehindu.com/books/the-author-as-a-voyeur-and-many-other-questions/article4425609.ece|date=18 February 2013|accessdate = 14 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = 'There's nothing romantic about the life of a sex worker'|publisher= Rediff | url = http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-specials-interview-with-mayank-austen-soofi/20121206.htm | date= 7 December 2012|accessdate = 14 April 2014 }}</ref>

Also well known for his popular columns on Delhi in the city supplement of ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' titled "The Delhiwalla",<ref>{{cite web | title = The Delhiwalla | work = Hindustan Times | url = http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/the-delhi-walla/ | accessdate = 14 April 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140416192024/http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/the-delhi-walla/ | archive-date = 16 April 2014 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Soofi now writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", for the weekend supplement of the business newspaper [[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]].<ref name=must>{{cite web|url=http://blog.knowledge-must.com/archives/73-Delhi-Walla-An-Interview-with-Mayank-Austen-Soofi.html |title=Delhi Walla: An Interview with Mayank Austen Soofi |publisher=Knowledge Must Blog |date=1 September 2011 |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Mayank Austen Soofi|publisher=Livemint| url = http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/Mayank%20Austen%20Soofi
| accessdate = 14 April 2014 }}</ref>

He has initiated many projects, including Mission Delhi, which aims to profile 1% of Delhi's 14 million people,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m2wxq |title=Outlook, |publisher=BBC World Service |date=19 December 2011 |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref> and a blog dedicated to [[Arundhati Roy]]'s debut novel, ''The God of Small Things'', and to its readers. He recently started a reading club called The Delhi Proustians, which centers around the French novelist [[Marcel Proust]] and his seven volume novel, ''In Search of Lost Time''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Patrick Barkham |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/20/local-blogging-voices-global-village |title=Local bloggers: voices from the global village |work=The Guardian |date= |accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref>

==Works==
*''The Delhi Walla: Delhi Monuments'' – HarperCollins, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-9-350-29005-7}})
*''The Delhi Walla: Delhi Hangouts'' – HarperCollins, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-9-350-29006-4}})
*''The Delhi Walla: Delhi Food+Drink'' – HarperCollins, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-9-350-29004-0}})
*''The Delhi Walla: Portraits'' – HarperCollins, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-9-350-29064-4}})
*''Nobody Can Love You More'' – Penguin Books, 2012. ({{ISBN|978-0-670-08414-2}})

==See also==
* [[Burhaan Kinu]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/ The Delhi Walla, website]
* {{Flickr-inline2|https://secure.flickr.com/photos/mayankaustensoofi/}}

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