India, Oct. 4 -- Mohit Adlakha, a Gurgaon-based artist and illustrator, created this artwork for his "fat brother" Gola, aka Kebab, aka Rajpal Yadav, wishing him a happy life in heaven and hoping he would celebrate his win by eating some juicy kebabs up there. Sadar Market misses you.

Delhi has voted for MPs, MLAs and the odd RWA president, but in the last week of September the city queued up at cafes to choose its fattest dog. Fat Dogs of Delhi, an Instagram page run by a final-year Delhi University journalism student who keeps her name private, turned into a knockout poll on September 24, pitting 64 dogs with names like Kutta Singh, Dahi Bhalli and Mahakutteshwar against each other, several of them community dogs cared for by shopkeepe...