Qalai: A Waning ArtArticle
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“Bhande qalai kara lo! (Get your utensils tinned!)”
The qalaigars’ reverberating call in the galis of old Delhi, announcing their trade is an almost disappeared auditory phenomenon that was once the most banal and everyday of sounds of the old city. And so we head to the qalaigars of Matia…
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Bharat Motor Repairing Works
‘The Bharat Motor Repairing Works’, reads the dusty lopsided board hung outside the workshop in Lal Kuan, Old Delhi. One of the last few karkhanas of kherad ka kaam on metals that is still located in the old city of Delhi, the workshop in its dilapidated…
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Tucked in a by-lane of Sita Ram Bazar, in gali Sheesh Mahal, almost akin to an echo of the past that somehow escaped the ravages of time lies the locally respected karkhana (workshop) of Choudhary Kallu Mal, a thathera by profession whose name, like his legacy, has stuck so that the karkhana …
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