Delhiwale: This way to the Lohe Wala Pul – Hindustan Times

As part of our ‘Walled City dictionary’ series that explores the names of Old Delhi places.

What if Delhi disappears. Will the land where it stood still be known as Delhi?

This is precisely the posthumous destiny of Lohe Wala Pul, the foot-over bridge of loha, or iron, that used to span upon a traffic light crossing on Netaji Subhash Marg. The bridge was dismantled in the pre-Instagram era. On googling, the search engine spews out images of the Capital’s Lohe ka Pul rail bridge upon the Yamuna instead. Even so, while in Daryaganj, try to ask any random person the way to Lohe Wala Pul, and you shall be directed to the vanished landmark.

In the old days, when the Sunday Book Bazaar was hosted in Daryaganj, the Jama Masjid-side of Lohe Wala Pul marked the last point of the mile-long market. Announcing the bridge’s impending removal by the city’s corporation, a 2009 report in Hindustan Times quotes an officer, explaining that the “general public is not able to use the bridge because…

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