Sunday, January 5, 2014

About centuries-old Laad Bazaar of Hyderabad!


WOW! The merchandise and glitter!

Of Hyderabad’s Laad Bazaar,

A splendid bargain Paradise!

Beckons women; from time to time!

Laad Bazaar of Hyderabad is a very popular and centuries-old market! A grand shopping centre for women! It is located adjacent to Charminar along a kilometre-long road and in its bye-lanes. “Laad” in Urdu means lacquer and the market got its name as Laad Bazaar because from ancient times attractive bangles and other art and gift articles made of lacquer and embedded with bits of colour glass, pearls, semi-precious gems and stones were sold here.

Lacquer bangles are still sold here but the market is now mostly flooded with various jewellery - precious, semi-precious, imitation and fashion jewellery. There are countless shops selling such jewellery - bangles, bracelets, earrings, chains and necklaces and silverware, gold-embroidered sarees and fabrics, silk sarees, wedding dresses, all types of dresses for tiny tots to grown-ups, attractive handbags and slippers, perfumes, cosmetics and accessories like hair bands, clips, mehendi, henna and the list, in short, is all that women fancy! 


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