chaura bazaar , the busiest market place in ludhiana , a kilometer long stretch of road that extends all the way from clock tower in the west to gha-mandi in the east , a place host to a motley of shops dealing in a variety of goods ranging from clothing to jewelry , from cosmetics to fancy dress props , from spices to books , from musical instruments to decorative embellishments , and along with these , here lies a number of narrow transverse lanes , each a market place in itself specializing in selling one sort of article or another .