A quiet place.

29Mar09

I think one of the first tips I got from a fellow foreigner here was go to Lodhi Gardens to get away from the noise. It is an oasis. Given that, it’s kinda crazy that it took me this long to walk this place. The gardens are maybe a 10 minute rickshaw ride from where I live, and I’ve actually gone by it a few times, peered past the forest of leaves and at those columns of palm tress you’ll see in the first pic below. They form a circular perimeter around this, one of several octagonal or square based tombs. The deeper you go into the park, the less it feels like Delhi. There had been a sprinkle of rain this day, and a pleasant breeze rustled the leaves. Could have rocked me to sleep, but I climbed the old steps of one of the domed tombs instead. A shaft of light through one of the windows illuminated particles of dust. There were seven graves. India doesn’t know who is buried here, but it surmises from the grandiosity of their final resting place that he or she must have been important.

I think Hindi is so pretty.

Translation.

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