Dilli, Dilwalaon Ki ...

A walk through Chandni Chowk can be illuminating... 

Digambar Jain Lal Mandir

Sis Ganj Sahib Gurdwara 

and Baptist Church nestling cheek by jowl, a hospital that caters to sickly birds, the framed photo of Pandit Nehru snuck in a grimy corner of a stall where jalebis are deep-frying, 

Heritage Havelis

Which house within them the old and the new ...

a Jama Masjid seemingly ensnared by electric wires, a monkey traipsing the overhead electric wires like some ersatz ballerina,

which opens to a breathtaking expanse inside ...

The verdure and expanse of Red Fort ...

 - but for the child who tags along, befuddled by the abrupt transition from stately Red Fort, ‘wonder what the fuss is all about’?

Chandni Chowk, where man, mammal, and multiple faiths meet, not collide.