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Caption: Old Delhi SPICE MARKET
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Caption: Up the road from the Red Fort in Old Delhi, on Khari Baoli Road, you’ll be amidst Asia’s largest wholesale spice market.
Spice in various forms is still traded out of shops and stalls nearly four hundred years old. If you look carefully, some of the shops retain their original names and numbers, 8 Number Ki Dookan (Shop number 8) for example, specializing in red chilies.
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Caption: The hub of the bazaar, a three story square, housing workers and stock, it's been this way since it was built.
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Caption: The market wakes up for trade between 10 and 11 o’clock, but life starts early for the migrant workers who work within the market.
First thing in the morning all the inbound and outbound spics are hauled to and from the awaiting trucks.
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Caption: Makeshift carts, powered by old scooter engines buzz up and down the road. Moving as much as possible in the allowable time frame.
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Caption: With nearly ten thousand workers in this area alone, breakfast is prepared by another legion of people, the smells of tea brewing, and parantha frying, mix with the rising clouds of spice. The fringes of the bazaar are also teeming with small catering and food kitchens to support the seething man power.
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Caption: The labor is formidable, literally back breaking, and the daily earnings are weighed on how much your back has managed to haul. By the end of the day, the very weapons of labor, serve as stretchers for the worn out men who have battled for their earnings.
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Caption: All of the workers live and work in the same area; men sleep in their offices, which can double as storerooms for some.
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