India, Oct. 31 -- This is Gali Shakeel Artist, just off Old Delhi's Urdu Bazar.

Dear reader, forgive the misleading introduction. The severely weathered marker for the street beside the tea stall calls the street Khidki Tafazzul Hussain-see photo. But surely it would be fitting to name the street after one of Old Delhi's great living artists, whose workshop stands here and whose art is seen in almost all parts of the Walled City.

Our weekly exploration of Old Delhi's streets, their present and past, begins here with a mystery. The said marker points into the street. Khidki means window. But which window? And who was Tafazzul Hussain? The marker offers no explanation.

The name is nowhere else to be seen in the street. Has it become exti...