A Piquant
Exposure
Chhota Bazaar Street Market[1]
It
was a November morning, when I was walking down the street of Chhota Bazaar[2] in
Shahdara. It provided me a distinct experience of function and aesthetic form
of the street that are inseparable from the eyes of dreams. The street possess
many distinctive forms that support counter-cultural lifestyles and
multi-colored large-scale instances of street art and murals that are situated throughout
the street.This street is a combination of the idiosyncratic shop fronts, the
valorisation of strolling; aimless wandering and street art make this an area of ironies which is counter-cultural and cool at the same time. The order to dispense with this
Bazaar is part of a series of such orders.
I
have taken a series of photographs through which I have tried to capture the
vibrant motions of the city that hold their traditional essence in the modern
way of life. Now lets start the journey of the Chhota Bazaar through these static realities.....
A journey starts from sweets…
In auspiciousnesss - kuch mitha
ho jaye…
Needs for prayer...
To fulfil rituals of spirituality…
A seller of ritualistic
literature...
Gods in the city....
The varied sellers....
He roams and sells…
A traditional jewel shop: Myriad faces of being busy in business
The tastiest food: Roadies way.....
"Bhaiya ek plate aur dena…(bhaiya please give me one more plate…)"
Old and Undeterred by the market…
A cobbler lost and found in space....
Views of jostling street: In its true nature...
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Display in street: Variety of utensils..
End Notes:
[1]Chhota Bazaar in Shahdara is situated on the banks of Yamuna River.
[2]Bazaar is approximately of One and a quarter Km, with average street width of 18 Mtrs. It starts from Sabzi mandi and ends at Shahdara railway station.
Author's Bio- Note:
Pratibha Tomar is a Cultural Geographer. She completed her Master of Arts (Geography) from the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is presently pursuing her M. Phil from the same department. Her research interests are growth and development of urban spaces, cultural geography, landscape geography and contemporary city planning and development.
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