Meet Rahul, Your Guide to Old Delhi

Rahul is the local guide behind every walk we run — and long before Old Delhi Food Tours existed, he was already doing the job for free.

When he was just 15 years old, Rahul used to head to Delhi's most famous monuments and walk straight up to tourists with the same nervous question: “Can I give you a free tour? I'm trying to learn English.”Some travelers said yes. Plenty said no. But every single “yes” became a conversation — and every conversation became a lesson.

Bit by bit, walk by walk, that's how he learned English: not from a classroom, but from talking to strangers from every corner of the world, and from watching Netflix dramas late into the night to catch the words he'd missed during the day. What started as a teenager's way of practicing a new language slowly turned into a genuine love for meeting people, and eventually into 10+ years of guiding travelers through the streets he grew up in.

To everyone who said yes all those years ago — thank you. You're the reason this exists.