Delhi oh Delhi

I went to Chandani Chowk today,im a delhi-ite and im almost chagrined to confess that this was my first visit to the place ( since the gaa gaa goo goo days). My cousin's wedding date has been fixed for the 31st of october so basically i went shopping. I live in a part of the city that is skirted with shopping malls so that is our usual destination for any sort of shopping...But honestly it has never been so much fun.
Parking is a huge problem in delhi so we werent very keen on driving to the place, our second option was the metro but my mother is very impatient and prefers quick auto rides over anything else (except cars). So we reached Chandani Chowk and went to the reccomended shop for all the purchasing. It is a hugeeeeeeeee Market and you will get everything under the sun. There are innumerable lanes called 'katras' and each katra has around 1500 shops so you can imagine the kind of variety. After all the shopping was done we got down to MY FAVOURITE excercise: Eating. We went to the 'Natraj dahi bhalle wala' its one of the oldest shops in Delhi and is famous for its dahi bhalla and tikki,and honestly iv not had such gilded tikki in ages..Next was the Paranthe Wali gali..the heavily stuffed aloo and gobhi parantha with dhaniya chutney and alloo ki sabzi was such treat. And for dessert stick kulfi and rabri at 'Ghantewala'( this shop is almost 200 years old).
After all that my stomach was stuffed and i hardly had space to breathe so we took an auto back and on our way it started pouring..(never trust the weather god) so we were drenched stuffed and tired but we were happy..
I wonder if we need so many malls in the name of development... i think we're missing out on the 'Real Delhi' charm.