Lucknow, March 22 -- Cash registers are ringing at shops in the Old City areas of Nakkhas, Akbari Gate, Yahiyaganj, and Aminabad as they do brisk business over Ramzan and Eid shopping.

From women bargaining for home furnishing items to clothing, shoes, crockery and everything that's on sale to men and children supporting them by carrying the shopping bags, one sees it all. The number of polybags and shopping bags in their hands would at once make you realise as if the part of the Old City continues to cherish the charm of stepping out, feeling the fabrics, smelling the perfumes and inspecting the quality of a product from all sides in front of their eyes.

Prabhu Jalan, vice-president of Lucknow Vyapaar Mandal, said that it might seem th...