Chandni chowk is the place to be for shopaholics. The market is so old that the dates of its origin go back to the mughal era when the mughal empreror shah jahan was the king.
Initially, the design of chandni chowk was a large square with a centrally located pool was incorporated. Chandni chowk was designed by shah jahan's favourite daughter. Chandni chowk has grown through ages. It represents development of three centuries. The place is buzzing with life all the time. The Electric environment can make people feel the energy and make them explore the area more. Chandni chowk the busiest hub in the entire country, it can easily be called a living muesum.
The busiest place has garbage all over the place. There is no place to even walk properly, the hustle bustle, the noisy and the happening atmosphere makes you go insane both in a postive and a negative way.
Places like chandni chowk catch peoples eye balls as the atmosphere there is so colourful and vibrant! You can see cars and rickshaws crawling at the same pace like people walking on the pavement. This shows that anything can happen there.
Chandni chowk is the oldest bazzar existing today, many shops being existing since a century and being passed from one generation to another. The pranthas of the paranthewaali gali and the jalebi of the jalebi waalas have not changed over the years. Good food and great temples are the speciality of the happening place. Papdi chaat on the opposite side of the gurduwara and the roadside kebabs near jama masjid are the mouth watering snacks to die for.
It was a real good experience for me to travel and explore such a cool place. I, not being a delhiite was fasicinated by the whole idea of it and loved each bit of this experience.
It's a well written blog. Just as a suggestion, it would have been nice to read your personal views ,and how you saw the place, more than the historical facts.
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