City Hangout – Bougainvillea’s Shaving Stall, Chelmsford Road Hangouts by The Delhi Walla - July 22, 20190 Barber's paradise. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Pavement shaving stalls are just about everywhere in Delhi—unlike western cities where the tradition has died out. These are patronised, among others, by a vast populace of hardworking male migrants who live alone in the city, far from their families, making an earnest living as labourers, rickshaw-pullers and street-food hawkers. Each shaving stall, with its bare minimum of a mirror and shaving brushes, has its own ecosystem specific to the locality and its clientele. But the one at central Delhi’s Chelmsford Road might be the city’s most picturesque shaving salon. It lies under a gloriously dense bush of pink bougainvilleas. The flowers make such an overwhelming impression that the astonished eyes register the modest