The city has initiated a tonne of beautification projects, poverty rehabilitation and public transit projects. More later.
Park at Connaught Place, Delhi. Right under this park is a huge market called Palika Bazaar, it is airconditioned and cheap. A great place to shop if you're shopping. The only turn off is overly aggressive shop keepers, but that again, is an experience in itself.
View out of a Rikshaw.
We are at one of Delhi's spanking new Metro Rail Stations. They have metal detectors and X-Ray machines and HUGE cars. I guess, its to accommodate the million people that got on with us.
India Gate at night. Once you drive through the gate (hypothetically, civilians are not allowed to drive through), one end of the road through houses the President's Residence and the other end has the National Stadium. The British built this back during the Raj with a statue of King George in the foreground. The statue of King George has been replaced by that of Gandhi.
Qutub Minar. Part of a huge mosque designed back in the 1100s.
Graves - presumably husband and wife, at the Qutub Minar.
Stones for the pillars above have been (allegedly) pulled out of Jain and Hindu temples that were demolished by Muslim invaders. This may or may not be true, i overheard a tour guide talk about it at length to a German couple.
That pillar in the background is made of iron and surprisingly hasn't eroded in the past 1000 years or so. Indian/Persian/Mughal/whatever metallurgy at work.
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