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Bob Dylan's Paharganj place
Hindustan Times Delhi
|July 10, 2025
Dissecting a locality through a café bench
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This muggy afternoon, a profusely sweating man is spray painting a sequence of words on the slats of a bench's backrest.
Using large stencils, he is painting in white, ostensibly intending to give the bench a name. The first letter is B.
The brown bench is plonked outside Madan Café, here in backpackers' Paharganj. The man at work is Aditya. His father had founded the café in the 1970s, just as the Delhi locality was starting to get its first hippies.
This story is from the July 10, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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