City Life – Gali Chamre Wali Part 2, Old Delhi Life Walks by The Delhi Walla - June 3, 20230 Life of a lane. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Walls have ears, we know that. But doors with mouths? That’s the magic happening in this gali—two facing doors are chitchatting, that too in human-speak. Blame the twilight dark. It’s actually two women talking, each standing by her house door, half-hidden behind the curtain. The street’s emptiness is bridging the gap between them. And in a window far above, a silhouette stands unmoving. Gali Chamre Wali was inhabited by people working in the chamra, or leather, trade. Most of those dwellers moved to Pakistan following the partition. The street today has citizens from a cross-section of occupations. These facts have already been outed in an earlier dispatch on the gali. But the gali
City Food – Ghalib Street, Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti Food by The Delhi Walla - June 3, 20230 On poet's trail. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is the only Delhi lane named after Delhi’s greatest poet. Ghalib Street starts from Lodhi Road and terminates towards his deserted tomb, here in Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. It has lately been emerging as Delhi-NCR’s liveliest food gali, that too very organically, without any central planning. Here’s a complete guide. Husseini Hotel Street’s oldest, largest, buzziest eatery. Actor Ranbir Kapoor was famously seen eating sheermal here in the 2011 film Rockstar. Its lovely courtyard vanished with recent renovations. Everything now looks new, but the metal tijori at the counter dates from 1952, the year it was founded. Snap survey Rahmati’s pavement stall: very new,,fourth day today, she doles out coal-roasted bhutta; Raj Juice Corner: its wide