Emperors’ sweet shop, Sohan Halwa Shop more popular as Ghantewala which served pure desi ghee sweets in Delhi for decades will be becoming extinct. The shop closed its business and this will make Delhi lose its 225 years old landmark in Chandini Chowk.
Chandni Chowk
Many sweetlovers' hearts are broken when couple of days back the owners brought shutters down. The shop located near aranthe Wali Gali on the main Chandni Chowk Street, Ghantewala (Sohan Halwa Shop) had been in the business since 1790.
Lala Sukh Ram started selling sweets after coming to Shahjahanbad, Amer in Rajasthan. Historians say Mughal Emperor Shah Alam used to send his servants to get sweets from the halwai parked near a bell hanging down the thick chain.
visit Ghantewala as kids
A relative says it is difficult to run a
sweet shop now. Nehru's too used to relish Ghantewala sweets. Noted journalist
Viond Dua remembered "We used to visit Ghantewala as kids. I had heard
that the royal elephants of the Mughals would pass by with bells ringing. He
would feed them and that's how he got his name,"
