Krishna Market, Sector 41

A rehri market (rows of cart stalls) set deep in the residential sectors, which is exactly why almost no visitor finds it. This is where the neighbourhood buys: very cheap clothes and footwear, household goods, accessories, tailors who will take up a hem while you wait. By evening it fills with families and the smell of snacks frying at the stalls. Bring cash and bargain in good humour; ten to twenty per cent off the asking price is normal. Shops keep roughly 10 am to 8 pm.

Everyday Chandigarh at full volume, in a market the city kept for itself