Champa Gali

This guide to Champa Gali in Delhi traces how a narrow lane behind an old poultry farm in the village of Saidulajab became an arts-and-cafe strip, starting around 2013 when product designer Jiten Suchede struck a deal with landowner Kuldeep Singh and turned a shed into a carpenter's workshop and a pop-up tea stall under a neem tree. You'll hear how Blue Tokai's coffee roastery followed two years later and planted the champa shrubs that gave the lane its name. Listen for the mismatched chairs spilling out of the studios along the barely two-hundred-meter stretch.