Some of my own questions got answered here - like why were you staying in Chandni Chowk - a place I have never been myself despite living 40+ years in New Delhi :)
All said and done, chandni chowk and Old Delhi as a whole was called an unequaled paradise once.
It was the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who said of (Old now) Delhi:
If there is heaven on earth
It is this, it is this, it is this!
I have no idea when and how the decline began. I have read books by British residents as well praising the beauty of the place during the British rule. As far as I remember their descriptions, it was not so crowded, full of greenery, cultured locals but famous for bazaars even then.
Some of my own questions got answered here - like why were you staying in Chandni Chowk - a place I have never been myself despite living 40+ years in New Delhi :)
All said and done, chandni chowk and Old Delhi as a whole was called an unequaled paradise once.
It was the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who said of (Old now) Delhi:
If there is heaven on earth
It is this, it is this, it is this!
I have no idea when and how the decline began. I have read books by British residents as well praising the beauty of the place during the British rule. As far as I remember their descriptions, it was not so crowded, full of greenery, cultured locals but famous for bazaars even then.