I can nver forget the time I spend with friends when we used to visit the Hauz Khas village and roam around the this place in sunshine. Hauz Khas was a tank and serai built during Alauddin Khalji's time (early 14th c.), which Firoz Shah improved upon, and was also where he built a madrasa and his own tomb. The tomb is not very interesting (to me - though the interiors are quite nice), but the madrasa buildings are beautiful examples of Tughlaq architecture.Another of Delhi's urban villages grew around the madrasa buildings, though the madrasa itself is walled off and maintained by the ASI. However, much of Hauz Khas village has been taken up by wealthy owners and tenants and converted to hip (or at least once-hip) boutique stores and restaurants. As is evident from these photographs, the lack of propriety when it comes to maintaining a respectable distance from these ancient structures runs vertically through Delhi's social strata.
