28 August 2007
We went to Fatepur Sikri (Fah-teh-purr Sick-ree), another example of Mughal architecture at its best, at the urging of Pig. She asked, “As long as we have traveled this far, shouldn’t we go just a little bit farther?” So we visited this ancient fortress with its elephant stables, a master bedroom suite the size of a house with a stone bed elevated on giant pillars,and incredib...
27 August 2007
It was around midnight in Connaught Place, Delhi. We had arrived back in the capital city before our departure to Nepal the next morning. Then I realized, it’s just like going to PRIMITIVE.
13 August 2007
So I suggested we go to Ellora, hoping to find something equally great . . . but all that was there was eye training. After the shock of finding Pig's ancestors at Ajanta, we made our way to the caves at Ellora. Like the Ajanta caves, these are rock cut masterpieces which completely boggle the mind. But none of Pig's relatives were visible in the ancestral traces which have survived for many ce...