Ballimaran (Delhi)

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"It was where boatmen on the Yamuna once lived, when traffic flowed on that river, and it was the `balli', the oar, that gave the area its name," says Smith, adding that he's sometimes asked, somewhat ludicrously , if cats were slaughtered here.(Billimaran is how some hear it). THE STREET of Ballimaran near Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi is not just famous for the house of Mirza Ghalib in Gali Qasim Jan. Long before the poet came to live there, it was the colony of boatrowers. Hence the name Ballimaran. The Nawab of Loharu was one of the illustrious inhabitants of the place.
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Coordinates:   28°39'10"N   77°13'32"E

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  • Its not correct Shahdara, Loni, Ram park is nearby cities from Ballimaran
  • This place is the heart of delhi Ishaque Manohar, sikar
  • ma ki lodi
  • This place is very disgusting, it happened to be my first visit the place is very densely populated bloating with loads of small window shops and alleys everywhere no place to walk , no place to drive . Too smelly , plunge of wires going overhead everwhere no discipline just hated the place
  • sas
  • chal chutiye
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