I could hardly believe what I read today in a newsletter from India Invites. Agra, as you may recall from one of my previous posts, is the home to the most obnoxious and AGRA-vating rickshaw and taxi drivers, hotel desk clerks, food vendors and anyone else in the …
Although my new friend from Udaipur, Akhand, taught me that in India there is no system, I actually found one. The Delhi subway.
A relatively new addition to the city (the first line opened about two years ago), the small line of mostly underground railways is extremely efficient, clean, cheap and …
Akshardam. No, that’s not a Hindi expletive. It’s a monument in Delhi which opened on November 6, 2006. So new, that’s it not yet listed in the guidebooks. We found out about it through our friends in Bangalore.
The monument was built in honor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. In 1781, at …