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I saw a carpet with the design of “The Garden of Shalimar” which is in Lahore, Pakistan. Another featured a bearded face with a turban in a drinking party with beautiful women which illustrated a poem in Persian, on its upper margin, by Omar Khayyam.

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Vehicles and men jostled for space. We watched monkeys [54] walk on the overhanging jumble of electrical wires.

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We saw merchants sitting on white cloth in their small shops, some stretching their legs. The shops were narrow, open to the street and elevated above it.

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I walked around the gallery with a fellow traveler who had expressed an interest in a carpet the salesman had called a Kashan.

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... and jump to roofs of three-story buildings.

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“These carpets are not made elsewhere because the younger generation does not make them in Kashmir. It is a dying art. Each of our carpet is made by just one family. Our prices are fixed.”

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We climbed on bicycle rickshaws to ride through the congested alleys

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We walked down the stairs to the crowded Meena Bazaar where there were as many goats as men.

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Now traffic signs in Delhi show the divergence: they are still in the old Urdu script but also in a different script for Hindi, as Hinudstani is called after becoming far more Sanskritized.

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Delhi’s main bazaar, the Chandni Chowk.

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The signs in Urdu read elan-e qurbani (Notices for the Sacrifice). The Muslim Feast of Sacrifice (aid ol azha) was only days away and the goats here were sold for the rite of sacrifice.

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... as the sun was setting.

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I could see the Red Fort across Shahjahanabad.

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The Irish man said “but you claim that he is the last prophet that he has the last word.” Soon the custodians asked us to leave the Mosque...

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Outside, from the top of the hill where the Mosque is located...

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