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Named so for its circular central plaza, Gole Market was a 12-sided market with six entrances and a central courtyard

A stone’s throw away from the high-end stores and restaurants of Connaught Place is what used to be one of the city’s oldest colonial marketplaces — Gole Market, built in the 1920s and designed by Edwin Lutyens.

Named so for its circular central plaza, it was a 12-sided market with six entrances and a central courtyard. It has several features characteristic of Edwardian architecture — the outer facade has colonnaded arches supported by columns while the interior has arched windows, balconies, spacious corridors and high ceilings.

In her book, Connaught Place and the Making of New Delhi, author Swapna Liddle notes: “The commercial spread reached beyond the main blocks of Connaught Place, into nearby areas too. Gole Market, constructed in the early 1920s by the government, was the first market to be built in New Delhi… On either hand, shops for produce such as poultry and fish, and a wide variety of grocers, were located in Gole Market rather than Connaught Place, presumably because it was not the sahibs and memsahibs themselves, but their domestic staff who shopped for these daily essentials. After all, one visitor remarked, Connaught Place was where elegant ladies shopped, wearing hats and gloves.”

Nitika Sansanwal won the bronze medal in the Under-23 category at the Asian Wrestling Championship

Five years ago, Nitika Sansanwal started training to become a wrestler without any idea of where she would go. Now, the second-year BA Political Science and Food Technology student from DU’s Bhagini Nivedita College, has won the bronze medal in the Under-23 category at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Nitika is the oldest of two children in her family, which hails from Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri and moved to Delhi before she was born.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Nitika said, “I started practising five years ago. My father used to wake me up early in the morning and make me run. One day, he took me to the Najafgarh stadium, and I just started training even without knowing where this would lead to. My father was a wrestler too. It is in our family.”

Nitika’s father had also represented the country internationally but quit wrestling due to a neck injury a few years ago. He is now a CRPF personnel, posted in Chhattisgarh.