A Busy Street Scene

I live in a crowded locality of the area and the crowd presents the scene of “a human sea” in the evening. People return from the offices and students are back from their schools. Housewives come out to purchase vegetables, fruits and other domestic items. Young boys and girls dress themselves in their best and go out for shopping. There is maximum crowd in the vegetable market. The ladies move from stall to stall and bargain for each and every item. They are also very careful about short weighing by the vendors and keep an eye on the weighing machines. The shopkeepers have sweet tongues and try to entice their customers through sweet talk. The confectioner’s shop is another place of attraction, for little children guide their parents to the shop and force them to buy the sweets of their choice. The girls always go in for chat pakoris whereas the boys prefer gulab jamuns or jalebis. The street hawkers pedal their wares very nicely. The balloon sellers carry whole bunches or inflated balloons to attract small children. The toy sellers set their stalls on the pavements. The newspaper vendors sell the evening newspapers in a very nice manner. They shout out the sensational news but keep the paper folded. The whole atmosphere is spoiled by the beggars and the cows.