Chandni Chowk's new ways

A singularly modern perspective, among an array, to experience a historic site

- Mayank Austen Soofi

Although it was mashoor for sohan halwa, the sweetshop’s boondi laddu would reach closest to perfection.

Each round piece topped with a single melon seed, the little laddu would dissolve the instant it was tossed into the mouth.

Old Delhi's Ghantewala Confectioners had been a Chandni Chowk landmark since 1790. It closed its shutters in 2015. The space wasn't orphaned. It changed into a cloth shop. A few years later, the cloth shop closed too. The space shuffled back into a sweetshop—reverting into... the same Ghantewala!