First Field Trip to Monastery Market

Hi Everyone! I'm Ananya Shree, a student studying fashion designing in Pearl Academy. I'm in foundation year and as a part of our research in module 4, we were divided into a group of four and my group got Monastery market as our research topic.

 I don't know if you guys have heard about Monastery market or not, but it's a small Market situated at Ladakh Buddhist Vihar, Civil Lines. Monastery market is called as the 'The Little Tibet' of Delhi because the ambience of the place screams Tibet.

 Why i basically went there is because my group and I got this market as our research topic. We basically had to do in-depth research of that area and know about the Visual, Social and Product culture of that area.

We went there via metro and had to change our stations a couple of times to get there from Noida to Delhi.We got off at Kashmiri Gate Metro station and took a rikshaw to get to the market which took exactly 5 minutes.

As we reached that place, we saw an unremarkable entrance with lot of hoardings right outside. This market is situated right under the ISBT flyover.

When we entered into the market, the first thing that caught my attention was the fact that this market sells cloths but sadly there are very little variations for Females as this market aims to sell clothes for men at a very inexpensive rates. There is a narrow street with shutter shops on both sides of the street. On the right side of the street, there are a line of independent shutter shops which sells only and only clothes for men. Whereas, there is privately owned complex at the left side of the street with a number of  shops inside. Most of these shops are rented by the shopkeepers. Every shop has the same green shutters. Some are big shops whereas others can't even fit 3 people at once and I wonder how they adjust all the clothes in those small shops. Well, they know a great deal about shelf management so it's really easy for them to remember where exactly they have kept a specific cloth of specific material and size.

When out in the monastery market, do not miss out the delicious momos with generous fillings at reasonable prices. The traditional food like Thupka and noodles are also available in the restaurant upstairs in the complex on the left side of the street.

Right behind the market, there's a monastery which attracts a lot of crowd.

There are a lot of other things but i'll share it in next blog! Till then, Ciao!

(source: www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/travel/tibetan-monastery-market-in-delhi)