Anarkali Bazaar is a treasure-trove, selling virtually everything from handicraft to transistor radio, tin sauce pan to refrigerator, a maze of lanes and alleys which stretch northwards from the Mall at the Central Museum end.
The shops are an odd mixture of east and west. Some are organized with fronts and windows and are recognizable shops. There may be a chemist which is also recognizable, but interspersed with these are colorful bangle sellers and alleys of stalls offering dupattas in all the colors of the rainbow. A man may be embroidering a dupatta in makash, silver patterns. He will sell it to you right away, and an absolute bargain it is, too, Anarkali is convenient for visitors to go shopping. No one is likely to get impossibly lost and it does contain a range of shops to supply most requirements, and the shopkeepers are mostly patient and very kind.

Old City bazaars

The bazaars in the old city are the ones people dreams about-tiny alleys, some of which will admit a rickshaw, a string of donkeys or carts- and pedestrians have to leap into doorways to give room.some alleys are only possible single file.

The Shahi Mohalla, behind the Fort is the Tart'sQuarter and contains the places where gentlemen can see dancing girls. In this area are some splendid embroiderers. The alleys give access to tiny booths which have a counter and a bench for potential customers to perch on.

Every thing exist that a middle class person want like Spices, vegetables, books, gold and silver, brass, jewelry, junk jewelry, antiques, carpets, kitchenware, brooms and buckets, feather dusters, shoes, pots and pans, garlands of money (for weddings or as presents to whores), garlands of flowers for shrines, blacksmiths and locksmiths, carpenters and furniture vendors, tea shops, snacks and food vendors, milk shops with huge vats of milk, South Asian fast-food, and piled displays of those highly colored, rather substantial sweets.

There are sellers of suitcases and bags, travel agents. Cats and dogs dine under stall fronts under stolen discarded offal. Kite-flying kids stand on top of the houses and every year on kite flying day they put powdered glass on their kite strings to cut those of their rivals. The streets below are thronging with people, many of whom are kind and friendly and enjoy stopping to chat with a stranger from another land.

For the ladies ready made stylish suits, shops near the Liberty Market and Fortress Stadium are the best. For handicraft, The Mall is very popular, which sells shadow work embroidery at reasonable prices. Ichra Bazaar has the best buys for silk, cotton and printed all sort of cloth, and the Mozang Bazaar, sells some particularly interesting hand-block printed cloth, tablecloth and bedspread.