Mayank Austen Soofi is a Delhi-based Indian writer, blogger and photojournalist, who writes columns for Hindustan Times and Mint on culture, food and literary landscapes of Delhi.
He is best known for his website and blog, Delhiwale, a multifaceted guide of the city, that has been praised as being "the most compelling guide to India's capital" by (The Independent[1] and "a one-man encyclopedia of the city" by Time Out Delhi.
[8][9][10] Also well known for his popular columns on Delhi in the city supplement of Hindustan Times titled "The Delhiwalla",[11] Soofi now writes a column, "Delhi's Belly", for the weekend supplement of the business newspaper Mint.
[3][12] He has initiated many projects, including Mission Delhi, which aims to profile 1% of Delhi's 14 million people,[13] 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.