WW1 at India Gate, Delhi

Date :2020-07-08



You can read the British names be'cause they are in BIG & bold type upfront but the Indian names are in the fine-print & you're NOT allowed to go close enough to read them. Zoom technology changes all that ..


India Gate

Date :2020-07-08



WW1 Memorial & New Delhi's leading icon


Dubious designs

Date :2020-07-08



Looks like an Indira Gandhi idea - 3 Murti iconography of WW1 replaced by obelisks of 3 Monkey Murti & Nehru quotations. 6 such obelisk of Nehru & fake 3 murtis still standing outside CIC house. All funded by NDMC, as it proudly states.


Teen-Murti standing outside CIC ( Commander in Chief) 's Residence

Date :2020-07-08



Nehru opted to use this as his official residence as PM. Biggest Lutyen's bungalow in Delhi, with its own mini-forest inside. Usurped by his daughter ( with the help of Sheila Dixit's father-in-law) - land grab from a humble PM Shastri, to make a Nehru museum.


Imperial Durbar - State entry to Delhi

Date :2020-07-08



Five months more & this December 29th, its going to be 118 years since the elephants from different kingdoms of India, came visiting Delhi - Thirty years on from 1902, Herge completed his - Cigars of Pharaoh - comic book ( with Maharaja Gaipajama), in 1932. The India panel takes its inspiration from the Imperial Durbar visual of 1902. - at Jama Masjid, Delhi