CHANDNI CHOWK
The Mughal City of Old Delhi
Swapna Liddle
Speaking Tiger
176 pages; Rs 399
As one crosses the Khooni Darwaza, on one’s way to Daryaganj in an auto or a car, one cannot help but remember the urban legend associated with this monument: It’s said, on rainy nights, the ceiling of the structure leaks — not water — but blood. According to one source, this legend started soon after 1857, when two sons and one grandson of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah ‘Zafar’ II, were shot dead and their bodies hung at this very spot. (This is the 160th anniversary
