From the archive record
This footage captures a lively street scene where vendors carry and sell a variety of goods amid heavy urban traffic. A young boy walks through the road holding a large bundle of colourful peacock feathers (mor pankh), while also carrying neatly stacked packaged items, likely decorative mirrors or small household products. Nearby, an elderly street vendor offers similar merchandise to passing motorists and pedestrians. Another man walks through the crowd carrying food items for sale. Cars, motorcycles, and auto-rickshaws move around the vendors, illustrating the energy of everyday street commerce and the resilience of mobile hawkers in India's bustling city markets.