India, May 10 -- Long narrow lane punctuated with scores of narrower cul-de-sacs. All crammed with warehouses and residences.

Old Delhi's Gali Than Singh stays unseen in Bazar Seeta Ram. Steeped in serenity and quietude, no crowd intrudes into its solitary akelapan. Occasionally, a labourer surfaces, breathing hoarsely, carrying hefty cartons on his head.

Nobody encountered on Gali Than Singh this evening has anything specific on long-ago citizen Than Singh, except for assuming that he must have been important enough to have the gali named after him. With no disrespect to the forgotten figure, the street ought to have been instead named after a super-special landmark here. Truly rare in the entire Walled City, it is a little workshop hi...