Daryaganj - Faiz Bazaar

Darya means River, here it is referring to Yamuna River which was just outside the walled city DELHI. Yamuna river was used for transportation during earlier time and for enjoying as well ..In earlier days we didn't have water parks to enjoy but we had better clean Yamuna water. Yamuna river is also considered as a Goddess and is worshiped .

It was earlier known as Faiz bazaar till the partition .It was a commercial hub then and its still a comericial hub.A lot many publishers have there offices in Daryanganj.If you are visiting Daryanganj on sunday you can see the street full of hawkers and would be thinking that it is a book market.Actaully every Sunday the usual shops of daryaganj are closed and the street is covered with sunday market .The market start from Delhi gate and continues till Red fort .In the beginning that is Delhi gate you'll see the book market .You can buy old/new novels/course books etc at a very cheap rate ,don't forget to bargain.Some may not like that they have to bargain but you should try to enjoy it as it would be useful for rest of your journey in Delhi.

After walking a few hundred meter you'll see Golcha which opened just after 7 years of partition so that free Indian can start enjoying Cinema. It is renovated now.You can go and watch a Hindi Bollywood movie there but it would require 3 hrs of yours so plan your trip accordingly if you wanna watch a movie.

After Golcha you'll see Moti Mahal which is famous for it Indian cuisine .You can have your breakfast here.You can try Dal makhani and Butter chicken with a butter Naan .If you don't want to have proper breakfast and want to just have some indian snacks then few footsteps ahead you'll see a wooden footover bridge and there would be a shop just below it selling indian snack.You can have it and continue your journey.

You are actually standing at a red light and you have to go left and within five of walk you'll see JamaMasjid(Your Next Destination).

Nehru Place -The Computer hub of Delhi

Nehru Place , Papa of all Computer market located in South Delhi . It was named after the Jawahar Lal Nehru ,India's 1st prime minister.

Nehru Place

The place is one of biggest computer hardware market of Asia so it is the place to be in if you are interested in computers and computer parts.You could find office of almost all hardware companies here to name a few Intel,Asus,Gigabyte,Kingston and transcend . You could easily get cheap CDs of computer games, movies and software. Street hawkers selling Cloths,watches,Shoes etc is a common site of Nehru place now a days . But do remember that you don't forget to bargain before buying anything from them .

Nehru place on Jan 2012 was stated as one of the top 30 notorious IT markets in the world by US trade representative .As you walk down in Nehru place after every few steps you would find a person standing with a long list of software's/games arranged alphabetically being sold at a very low price sometime may be 1/200 times the actual cost of the software .


It also has one of the best hotels in the city - Eros Hotel Managed by Hilton . If you want to watch a movie you could go to Satyam complex which is opposite to the Nehru place metro station or Paras Cinemas near Nehru place flyover.

Transport
You could reach nehru place via Delhi-Metro Violet Line(Central Secretariat to Badarpur). You could also reach by bus,it has its own bus terminal, popularly known as Nehru Place Bus Terminal.For other details please use google map provided below

 
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For buying hardware I would recommend you 2 shops .These are fixed price shops and sell genuine parts
1. Computer Empire
2. Cost to Cost -For price list you could use the link www.costtocost.in/list/pricelist.pdf


I found these 2 shops having the lowest rate in market .

if you want to get your laptop repaired ,you'll have to roam in the market and get it checked by atleast 3-4 by so called computer engineers .They are not engineer's by degree but have more knowledge than the engineers and can easily make a fool of anyone.So please note that you do survey the market properly otherwise you might get those parts changed in your computer which didn't require any changesand end up spending 4-5 times more than actually required.

Laptop lamination costs around 100/150 Rs .I got it done for my laptop for rs 130 which included full laptop lamination and keyboard guard .


Other Stuff that you could get at cheap rates in nehru place are 

• small electronic items - multiplugs , laptop fan,universal adapters
• mobile accessories
• Laptop accessories
• Shoes
• Cloths(fake Puma ,adidas ,nike are easily available )

For having Snack/Food you could go to 

• Sona Sweets - G 1, 27, Saraswati House, Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019
• Anupama Restaurant - GF 10, Bajaj House, Building No 97, Nehru Place
• McDonalds - Plot No. 45, Satyam Complex,Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019
• Subway - Plot No. 45, Satyam Complex,Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019
• Pind Balluchi -103, 104A, Goverdhan House, Behind Satyam Cinema,Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019
• Dominos Pizza- Plot No. 45 , Satyam Complex, Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019

Places you could visit along with Nehru place

• Kalkaji Mandir
• Lotus Temple
• ISKON Temple
• Greater Kailash(M block Market)