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Delhi
Shopping



Simply put, Delhi city is a shopper's paradise with trendy boutiques, flea markets, swanky malls, tiny kiosks, upscale shopping areas, pavement shops, modern art galleries, Tibetan markets, centuries old bazaars and second hand street markets.

For a fun filled shopping trip visit Dilli Haat, preferably in the evening. It's an open air complex housing artisans who sell their indigenous wares. Expect a riot of colours from kitsch to ethnic fabrics, shoes, trinkets and furnishings. Top it up with a meal from one of the various restaurants offering indigenous cuisine from each state of India.

For shoes, bags, jewellery and skin care products visit the M-Block Market at Greater Kailash (GK) - one of the hippest markets of New Delhi. Also on offer are posh malls all over Delhi offering braded goods and labels. For designer wear, visit the Garden of Five Senses near the Qutub Minar.

For shoppers on a shoe string budget, Paharganj is perfect with its junk jewellery and trippy clothing. For some serious trousseau shopping and gold-diamond jewellery, visit Chandni Chowk, Karol Bagh and Rajouri Garden. For affordable fakes, go to Lajpat Nagar.

Go to Janpath for curios and bronzes, mirror studded bed covers and stained glass lanterns, and haggle till exhaustion. Visit Palika Bazaar for CDs and software.

For real time handicrafts and prices to match them, visit one of the many emporia lining Janpath, especially the Cottage Industries Emporium, the ones on Baba Kharag Singh Marg and the Hauz Khas Village. Indo-Western outfits and fabrics in beautiful colours and also some stunning furnishings are available at Anokhi and Fab India outlets in central and southern areas of New Delhi. Sunder Nagar Market offers art and antiques.

If flea markets are what you enjoy, visit Sarojini Nagar to buy export surplus of branded clothes available at dirt cheap prices, even though you have to delve into the piles of clothes.

If you are a book lover, you cannot not go to the second hand book bazaar at the Kabaadi Bazaar pavement. Look out for books with unbelievably low prices, and if you are lucky, a precious first edition.

And remember the keyword in a shopaholic's guide, when in bazaars and flea markets, haggle, haggle, haggle!

While making plans for a Delhi shopping trip, keep in mind that markets in Delhi city are closed on certain days of the week.

Here's a list of few of the main market holidays:

Sundays
Chandni Chowk, Paharganj, Connaught Place, Janpath, Palika Bazaar, Khan Market, Hauz Khas Village and Nehru Place.

Mondays
Karol Bagh, Defence Colony, INA Market, Sarojini Nagar, South Extension and Lajpat Nagar Central Market.

Tuesdays
GK I, New Friends Colony and Yusuf Sarai