Delhi is known as shopper's paradise. You can find anything you are thinking of to buy in Delhi. Fabrics or readymade garments, gems or jewelry, accessories or footwear, furniture or crockery and sports equipments or electronic gadgets, you will find the best product while shopping in Delhi. Whether you are shopping for a designer label, a branded product or local made stuff, there are places for all these in Delhi. Enjoy shopping in air-conditioned malls without worrying about scorching heat and sweat or on roadside malls bargaining to your best of ability.
Connaught Place is the first place that comes into the mind when thinking about shopping in Delhi. The big showrooms are attractively decorated with their products such as shoes, garments, toys, household appliances, ornaments and cosmetics both of Indian and international brands. There are cinema hall and some very good restaurants and fast food outlets if you want some entertainment, relaxation and good food after a shopping spree.
In the vicinity of Connaught Place is the National Cottage Emporium in the Jawahar Bhawan in Janpath. It is a huge building complex where several sections displays items like clothes, dress material, jewelry, footwear, accessories, draperies, bed linens, furniture, decorative items and souvenirs. It is a government run showroom, so the quality and price of the items is guaranteed. Baba Kharak Singh Marg, also in the vicinity of Connaught Place, is lined with all the state emporiums where you can find the specialty products of each state along with items like fabrics, saris, dress material, bed linens and decorative items.
If you are shopping for designer labels or imported brands in clothes, dress materials, jewelry and shoes and also want an up market ambiance, then the markets of South Extension and Greater Kailash-I are the right places to check out. Shopping for designer wears made by Indian designers is available at the Hauz Khas Village Complex or Mehrauli Designer's Complex.
If shopping for marriage of a son or a daughter, then you could not afford to miss a visit to Karol Bagh. It is probably the biggest market for shopping of wedding trousseau. Whether it the heavy saris, designer suits, dress material or gold jewelry, you will feel satisfied only in this market
If you are looking for some smart casual wears that are latest in fashion but reasonable in prices, then you can explore the fashion markets of Janpath, Sarojini Nagar and Lajpat Nagar. Whether you are looking for readymade casuals, bags, shoes or jewelry, you will find the best in the prices that you could afford in these markets.
Chandni Chowk is mother of all markets in Delhi. Here you will find a wide variety at really low prices from any where in Delhi but you will have to walk a lot in order to search for what you are looking for. Check out the saris, suits, dress materials, readymade garments, furnishing, utensils, books, stationeries, jewelry and spices at Chawri Bazaar, Nai Sarak, Katra Neel, Katra Asharfi, Batashe Wali Gali and Fathepuri. Besides shopping, the added attraction of Chandni Chowk are the old and famous eating joints selling Indian chaats, like gol guppas, tikkis, dahi bhallas, aloo chaats, aloo kulle, paranthe, jalebi and several other eatables.
Dilli Haat near AIIMS flyover has become a popular shopping mart over the years. The stalls are given to various skilled artists from different states to exhibit and sale their handicrafts such as jute products, cane items, regional paintings, period furniture, regional paintings, rugs and carpets, ethnic printed dress material and decorative objects. Here you will also fin various food stalls representing all the states of India and you can try the culinary specialties of these states.
On a whole, shopping in Delhi is an extremely pleasurable activity and is but just one of the fascinating ways of understanding the pluri-cultural and pluri- ethic capital city of India.
