In my pursuit of the enchantments of this world I have been wading my way through living history ..one place at a time..and am having a whale of a time! Yet when the newness of a place wears me down and the strangers start getting too familiar for my liking, my heart begins to long for home....
.......for the familiar idiosyncrasies of the place which has grown on me for the last sixteen odd years.
Each one of its inhabitants may have their own opinion on this city but for me Delhi or Dilli as we locals know it, is one place which is swinging in a time machine. Here you have the swanky modern bungalows of the nouveau rich..over there the famous central business district in the heart of Lutyens' delhi - as much a buzz of modern day showcase of India shining as of her majestic resplendence of 1933...
....and then there are these glimpses that make us wonder.....
....on some days.... when its 3 pm in New Delhi .....6.30 am in New York........it is only 1443 AD in certain parts of Dilli....!!!...
...little wonder it makes my heart tug?
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| Electric wires in old Delhi |
.......for the familiar idiosyncrasies of the place which has grown on me for the last sixteen odd years.
Each one of its inhabitants may have their own opinion on this city but for me Delhi or Dilli as we locals know it, is one place which is swinging in a time machine. Here you have the swanky modern bungalows of the nouveau rich..over there the famous central business district in the heart of Lutyens' delhi - as much a buzz of modern day showcase of India shining as of her majestic resplendence of 1933...
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| Sheesh Gumbad |
....and then there are these glimpses that make us wonder.....
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| Bada Gumbad and Mosque |
....on some days.... when its 3 pm in New Delhi .....6.30 am in New York........it is only 1443 AD in certain parts of Dilli....!!!...
...little wonder it makes my heart tug?
