old delhis khari baoli somehow manages to feel both aggressive and beautiful as a street it is an assault on the senses particularly overwhelming are the smells coming from the rows of shops selling all kinds of spices and dry fruit but thats the usp of the spice sensorium walkusing our sense of smell as a starting point this heritage walk takes us through the history of spices in delhi the organisers focus on engaging the participants from introducing them to the unfamiliar yellow chilli powder used in the dhabhas of old delhi to testing their nose by making them guess attar scents jeera was a particularly hard one to figure outwalks in delhi are treading new ground beyond the traditional prism of food and monuments take the typography walk of paharganj for instance helmed by typeface designer pooja saxena the walkers get to examine the signboards of paharganj to learn about things like why hippies love the area how neon signs are made and why they are so rare in the city attended by tourists and locals alike the walk has interactive elements like a game of signage bingothe one to spot all the signs listed on a sheet of paper winssaxena 30 says to us especially people who have lived in delhi for a long time paharganj is a stereotypical place we think there are hippies some questionable fashion and that you can probably buy illegal weed while i love the traditional heritage walk a walk which looks at things differently can take you to a neighbourhood and make you see it with fresh eyessaxena is about to start a new walk that takes people through the nicholson cemetery the idea is to realise and then start to admire some of the letters on the gravestones being one of the oldest christian cemeteries in the city it has some of the oldest english letters you will see here you see history right there in stone she says saxenas walks do not cover a certain time or place in history they show you that history is made by ordinary folks and is everywhereanother walk that looks at paharganj differently is salaam baalak trusts sbt city walk the ngo works on rehabilitating street and working children and has the children themselves leading the walks and telling their stories apart from making some money they get to practise their english on touristsmohammad asif 18 has been leading these walks for almost two years now after my stepmother left us when i was four my father moved us from mumbai to his native up he died soon after and i went back to mumbai to find my mother thats where i met a group of street kids with whom i would pick pockets and collect rags i eventually came to delhi in 2014 where i got involved with sbt i talk about these experiences on the walks and love how appreciative people are he saysanother unusual walk organised by go