New Delhi—There’s nostalgia in every nook and corner of the old Delhi’s Khari Bouli dry fruit market that houses the biggest wholesale outlet of Afghan dry fruits in India. Being the capital from where the Mughals ruled pre-colonial India, the market has centuries-old relations with Afghanistan and dry fruits have particularly ruled the trade. After the partition of India in 1949, dry fruit traders migrated from the major markets of the Afghan dry fruit trade of undivided India, from the cities of Peshawar, and Quetta (now in Pakistan), and set up their businesses in Khari Bouli. Out of $507 million (3700 crores) worth of imports from Afghanistan to India, $315 million (2300 crores) were contributed by fruits and nuts alone in 2020-21, according to India’s Union ministry of commerce’s trade database. Almost a mile through the crowded lanes of Chandani chowk that overlooks the ramparts of the Red Fort from …