Best Street Shopping Places In Delhi

Shop Till You Drop..!!

The popular flea markets in India sell the most stylish and comfortable clothes and casuals that are preferred by this generation. You can find all youngsters thronging these street markets of India, striking a good deal with the sales persons and walking off with their catch!

Delhi

The most glamorous shopping area in the Heart of the City is the Connaught Place

It houses an underground shopping plaza "Palika Bazaar" where you can find extensive items ranging from clothes, bags, shoes to even silver jewelery.

Also, the most famous Janpath is located in Connaught Place, which a favorite haunt of all college going kids who come there to shop for the most stylish clothes available at surprisingly affordable prices.

Another place famous near Janpath is Central Cottage Industries Emporium in the STC Building Complex, which is paradise for handicrafts' lovers.

For the brand conscious, we have the posh markets and branded showrooms in the areas of South Extension, Vasant Vihar, INA Market, Greater Kailash located in south Delhi.

A handicraft market called Delhi Haat is located right opposite INA market and offers traditional handicrafts of rural India. You can also get a taste of delicious traditional food of India in the stalls of different states.

Central Market in Lajpat Nagar and Sarojini Nagar Market better known as S.N. are the first choice for the total shopping extravaganza.

In the central region of Delhi, we have the Khan Market that has a good collection of clothes and shoes along with junk ornaments. Towards the west of Delhi, we have the "always crowded" Karol Bagh, which is a unique amalgamation of malls, brand names as well as flea markets.

In all these places a thumb rule that every youngster swears by is bargaining. The traders raise the price to sometimes double the original cost. One should bargain upto 20-30% of the quoted price. So if a trader quotes a price of Rs.200 for an article, bargain till Rs.120 or at the most Rs.150.

Happy Shopping..!!

Real Inspiring Story Pani puri vendor's wife, Infosys Software Engineer

The wife of a poor pani puri has become a software engineer in Infosys, thanks to her husband’s support. Sheik Salar, 26, a street hawker, used every rupee he earned to help his wife Fatima Bibi Sheik, 21, achieve her academic ambitions. And it was not in vain. Fatima completed her course at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering with high marks and was given a plum posting by the software giant in a campus selection.

In fact, she is the first student from the college to get into Infosys.

Fatima and Salar stay in a slum at Rajendranagar. While Fatima went to college, Salar roamed around the city with a pushcart selling puffed rice, corn, chilli bhajjis and pani puri, earning Rs 150 per day. When she was married off to her distant relation Salar by her parents in 2001, Fatima was just 15 and felt that she would never achieve her dream of being a software engineer.

“I did not want to marry since I wanted to study further and achieve something,” she said. She was crestfallen since Salar merely nodded when she told him about her dreams. But his nod meant a lot and he started saving money to help her study. By living frugally, Salar somehow got together Rs 60,000 to pay Fatima’s fee for the first and second year of her engineering course.

“At the time of our marriage I was not sure how serious Fatima was about her studies,” said Salar. “But when I realised that she got 536 marks in her SSC exams and stood first in her school, I decided to help her study.” The pani puri vendor was adamant that her future should not get spoilt because she married him.

A junior college in the city provided her free intermediate education. She secured a decent rank in the Emcet exam and opted to join the electronics and electrical engineering branch in college. “We decided not to have kids till she got a good job,” said Salar. “For this, I took much criticism from my parents.” Fatima’s eyes moisten when she talks about her husband. “You can’t imagine the hardships he suffered to help me,” she said. “In the last six years, he was my strength. He sacrificed all his joys for me.”

for her classmates “We did not know her story then. Now she is our inspiration.”. She plans to take her husband along with her when she gets her posting. Salar too is proud, for he has proved that behind every successful woman there is a man.