India, Jan. 3 -- No "tiny tot" is setting foot this morning into the lane, though its gateway bears a large red hoarding of ABC Tiny Tots. The "school for little kids" lies towards the dead-end of the lane, where the lane expands into a little square.

Gali Dilsukh Rai Khajanchi is one of the many tributary lanes of the much larger Gali Charkhewalan. The street has understandably taken its name from some long-ago figure who must have been a khajanchi, or treasurer. But treasurer of whom or what-who can tell?! Truth be told, most Old Delhi lanes named after figures of long-ago past have no longer anything left to say on the life of those same figures. The once-illustrious personalities today lie forgotten; their identities collapsed into a...