As part of our ‘Walled City dictionary’ series, that is chronicling every significant Old Delhi place. Gali Lal Darwaza is entered, naturally, through a lal darwaza, red doorway. Lal Darwaza’s lal darwaza comprises of a red arch supported on walls of old-fashioned lakhori bricks. The modern-day soul of Lal Darwaza, however, isn’t in its beautiful old bricks. The two start …
HYDERABAD: The majestically carved darwazas that greeted one to Golconda fort for centuries together seem to have lost the last speck of grandiosity of yore. What welcomes visitors today is a huge pile of nauseating garbage and a heap, whose size is increasing by the hour due to the attitude of the locals, who apparently have lost civic sense. The …
