First time in the bazaar

Saturday we went to the bazaar (market) in Anand in a pedicab for the first time; I'm attaching photos so you can get a sense of the profusion of goods, people, vehicles, dust (and the occasional cow). We had a pretty modest shopping list -- we wanted to get mugs to complement the tiny doll-sized tea cups that are all the apartment came with, an electric kettle to heat water in, if possible, and towels a little softer than the two thin scratchy sheets with which we were supplied -- but the overwhelming nature of the whole place made even that a bit daunting for first-time visitors. We did, however, manage to get two mugs that we could stand looking at from the fairly small number of ugly choices that we found (small tea cups seems to be the way to go here) and while we didn't find an electric kettle that we liked, we did find an excellent stainless steel thermos-type tea pot that could hold multiple cups of tea and keep it hot for a prolonged period. I was still feeling too shy to get my bargaining mojo going (I'll need a bit more acclimatisation for that), so Bob did the dealing (English here, unlike in Delhi and other tourist spots I visited on my last trip, is quite minimal at best) -- and we agreed that by offering two-thirds or so, rather than half, of the stated price we probably got "rooked," but for at most a dollar or two, it's hard to get exercised about this. On the towel front, we totally struck out -- maybe we just didn't know where to look (could they hide towels under the row after row in stall after stall of sparkly, bejewelled fabric and saris?, but we didn't see any, or even anything that came close, anywhere. We can try again next time.