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Vowels of the street in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo

Hindustan Times, Delhi | ByMayank Austen Soofi
Sep 06, 2020 04:13 PM IST

In Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo, each door on the long winding street is marked with an ‘O’ or ‘E’ painted in yellow. While easing up the Coronavirus-triggered lockdown, the Delhi government had announced that shops could finally open for business on an “Odd-Even basis”, and that’s what the ‘O’s and ‘E’s allot.

In one famous scene of the Arabian Nights, a thief paints a mark on Ali Baba’s door so that his companions can visit later at night to murder him. But Ali Baba’s wise maid notices the mark and paints a similar one on each door of the neighbourhood to confuse the robbers.

Shops in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo(Mayank Austen Soofi)
Shops in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo(Mayank Austen Soofi)
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