Chawri Bazaar, Delhi, 1968. Shot on film Camera Source: Instagram/@raghurai.official
Streets of a young nation
In early works like Chawri Bazaar, Delhi, 1968, Rai captured the dense, layered life of a newly independent country. Shot on film, these images document crowded markets, overlapping movements, and everyday negotiations of space, revealing how urban India functioned at a human scale during its formative decades.
