"He who is “slain and smiles, steals something from the” Sword”… on getting inspired from her beloved Shakespeare—poet Emily Dickinson in a letter to friend
It has a last surviving bungalow! It has a haunted tower with 13 floors! And it has the capital’s densest assortment of high-rises… my dispatch on Delhi’s Barakhamba Road architecture!
Instagram started in 2010. Twitter started in 2006. But in 2008, i only had a blog, when one good person encouraged me by celebrating my months-old blog in a newspaper! Thank you, sir! It is 2025, and blogs are out of currency, but my thedelhiwalla.blog continues to breathe.
“Emily Dickinson did not answer the doorbell or meet people face to face”—“Dickinson’s sole surviving garment is the white dress now inseparable from her public image”… on trying to get close to a poet’s world that inspired the poet to write what she wrote
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”… i luv u EMILY DICKINSON
