Tuesday, 27 March 2007

The Kingsway

Time to visit the RajPath...the most famous road in Central India. Flanked on one end by the India Gate, a 42m-high stone memorial arch and the other end by the Rashtrapathi Bhavan (President's House) with Secretariat buildings along the path towards the President's House and the Sansad Bhavan (Parliament) round the corner, this is definitely the administrative nuclear of India.




There are two options as Argun puts it - walk from one end to the other or drive and make stops. I sheepishly smile at Argun "We drive and stop ok...too hot to walk. I need A/C!"

The heat is definitely zapping out the energy from me. Mustering every last ounce of excitement in me, I dragged myself towards the imposing gate. Mendhi...Mendhi...little girls just swarm around me...this is the art of drawing on your hand...I am like 'No No' and they just keep following me. I have to give them credit for being so persistence but I am also one that is hard to be persuaded so I let them follow me until they got tired of following me. And I totally got caught off guard by this lady...out of no where she came up behind me and pinned an indian flag on my sleeves..."Don't worry. I am a school teacher. Donation for children in my school, mam". Dear oh dear...what to do...she kept repeating the same sentence and then I did the unthinkable, I pulled the flag out from my sleeves and gave it back to her and walked away. Yes I am awfully mean but sometimes you just have to do it!



Ah...now getting a picture of myself...right I could ask but ask the wrong person and there goes my camera...I will be crying tears in bucket if that happens...haha turned out it wasn't as difficult as I thought...this indian guy wanted a picture with me so I said no probs then we swap swap ok. Almost perfecto!





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