Delhiwale: The windows of Daryaganj

This is a window with six panes. The glass of each pane is discoloured to a different degree—one pane is in fact partially broken, the jagged edges of its shattered glass are hanging like stalactites in a cave. But here are dozens of similar windows clustered together as if an ambitious window convention were taking place in town. The windows are spread through a series of aged buildings that line a stretch of Shubhash Marg in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj; across the road from Golcha cinema. This window is balkanised into four small rectangles, each containing a sub-window The windows in another building are as tall as the doorway of a hotel lobby.