Delhiwale: This way to a secret path
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Delhiwale: This way to a secret path

Hindustan Times  

This secretive Old Delhi pedestrian lane has no shop and no house, no temple and no mosque, and currently no pedestrian. The stone wall is a rare souvenir of Old Delhi’s origins. The track goes past a wasted heath littered with paper cups, cigarette butts, chip packets, thermocol bowls, tobacco sachets, beer bottles, a severely rusting vehicle — and amid all this litter lies a park bench. When Shah Jahan built his capital of Shahjahanabad more than 300 years ago, he secured the new city’s five-mile-long circumference with a protective stone wall, fortified with 14 gateways. Most of those stone darwazas succumbed to Delhi’s violent past, along with most of the wall.

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