The 'kaan maeliye' as the ear cleaners are traditionally called, are now a vanishing breed and remain limited to a few pockets in Delhi and some small towns like Ambala and Meerut.
One of the traditional trades that have been going on for centuries in India is that of ear cleaning. If somebody wanted to know the latest gossip about the king and the court in Delhi, they either went to a barber or an ear cleaner.
Almost every ear cleaner in North India will trace back his forefathers' origin to the medieval times and claim that their forefathers worked in the courts of the Mughals.
Source: The Hindu
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