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Deepak Badhwar talks to a 'topi' seller or a shopkeeper about animal skin products. He then explains the importance of a skull cap or topi which Muslims wear during prayers. It is on the occasion of Bakri Eid that the Delhi markets are in festive mood. He checks out the market near Jama Masjid where shops are adorned with Eid related covetable. He is wearing a Karakul hat! A Karakul (or Qaraqul) hat (Urdu, Pashto, Persian: قراقلی; also known as a Jinnah Cap in Pakistan for its frequent use by the country's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah) is a hat made from the fur of the Qaraqul breed of sheep, often from the fur of aborted lamb foetuses. The triangular hat is part of the costume of the native people of Kabul which has been worn by generations dating back in Afghanistan. The fur from which it
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