"Splotches of red blood still stain Ziarat Gul's memory: his sister was gunned down by the Taliban and her body placed at the chowk [square] where I stand.
We stopped in the village of Rajikhel for a late lunch, and filed into a high-ceilinged room in the chowk, a crossroads where men gather.
I will be in D chowk in spirit and will deliver my address live from hospital bed thru videolink to all r ppl gathered for #NayaPakistan! — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) 9 May 13 By the grace of God,ppl's prayers & the dedicated drs of SKMTH I am improving fast.I want 2 thank every1, incl pol ldrs 4 their prayers.
"Everyone at Bara Tooti has at least one good idea that they are convinced will make them unimaginably wealthy," Sethi writes, "something about the chowk breeds the wildest schemes".
Hardly had they made their processional entrance, in single file, than in unison they demonstrated a tribhanga — a celebrated Odissi S-bend position in which dancers create a series of upward curves at knee, torso and shoulder — and contrasted it with the sculpturally square position called chowk, all amid a swaying dance of ritual invocation.
In the community of Nyakha Chowk, 1,500 residents assembled around a Buddhist temple for the night where dinner was being cooked in two giant pots.
Scroll now takes us to Delhi, exploring how two of the city's most famous buildings – Humayun's Tomb and Chandni Chowk – were built by women.
In Chandni Chowk, the chugging of generators drowns out the growl of cars and auto-rickshaws.
The afghani is traded not just in Kabul but also over the Pakistani border in the Chowk Yadgar district of Peshawar.
He is sitting in the office of his broker, Amit Bhayana, who hangs his shingle from a crumbling balustrade overlooking Chandni Chowk, one of the city's busiest markets.
At old Delhi's pastel-shaded town hall in Chandni Chowk, the monitoring station apparently once recorded a reading of 1699!
