Continuing with the Delhi exploration theme, I was at Red Fort this last Sunday. It is surprising how we spend our whole lives moving along the peripheries and never venturing what is within our reach. As Baba Bulle Shah has said - जेड़ा घर बैठा, ओनु फडदा ई नईं (Reach out we do not, to He who resides within).
Red Fort is a magnificent palace, though a bare one now - so unlived in, so unlike the palaces of Rajasthan, which I find still warm and hospitable.
This has perhaps something to do with the fact that Red Fort has not been home to anyone since the time its last occupant - Bahadur Shah Zafar, the Last Mughal, was captured by the British after 1857.
Here are some pictures of the Red Fort and Chandni Chowk for you:
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| Chandni Chowk |
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| सब गन्दा है पर धंधा है ये |
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| Patel Chowk (could not resist adding this one) |
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| The Kalpvraksh? (Outside the Chandni Chowk Metro Station) |
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| The First Look |
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| The Dawn of Independence, it seems? |
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| The Entrance - Chhatta Bazaar |
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Love-birds
(Cliche, but so apt) |
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| Naqqar-khana |
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| Naqqar Khana 2 |
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| Deewan-e-aam (The Audience of the Commons) |
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| बाहों के दरमियान |
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| रंग महल में कव्वे? |
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| And then, there was light! |
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| Bathroom Floor! |
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| Cleaning of the Courtyard |
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| Moti Masjid |
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| शाही हम्माम में सभी.... |
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| मोती मस्जिद |
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| Temple outside Chandni Chowk Metro Station |
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| जाने क्या |
Lets see when I get lucky next.
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