This way to Lohe Wali Gali
India, Nov. 22 -- Old Delhi's Gali Choori Wallan no longer has any choori shop, or choori worker. So why should you today expect Old Delhi's Gali Lohe Wali to have anything to do with loha, or iron?
In fact, the lane near Chawri Bazar exposes an altogether different character than you would expect from its name. It is lined with stores selling. wedding cards!
This afternoon, as the weak November sunshine tries to penetrate through the winter smog, the street walls deepen the grim mood with their dust-covered smears of peeling paint. A rotting genda garland is strung around a wall flyer advertising the services of a "shutter repairer." A kati patang is stuck behind a pole. An old door is lying latched and locked (see photo). The gap between ...
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