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Have been to Delhi and Hissar during Diwali.
This time i get to see Delhi compared to what it was last time. Reached Delhi by afternoon and chose to stay at friends place. Gurgaon though is far from Delhi and no auto rickshaws to catch its a boon that Delhi has a metro connecting Gurgaon. We used metro completely for all the travel in Delhi.
I should mention this that for the First time i have seen such a clean platform and well maintained trains. I felt like appreciating every worker in DMRC. Its built completely to the perfection, the ads and the information is completely perfect for a person who is new to Delhi. There are enough people in the station to direct to anything you want to. We bought a DMRC railway card in order to save ourselves from standing in line all the time to buy tokens. It was a convenient way too. They take a deposit from you for the card and you keep recharging it whenever you want to with various denominations mentioned. It shows you how much it did charge for the last journey and how much is the balance on the card every time you punch in and out of a metro station. Its quite fabulous i must say. There are centers available in every station outside the punching counter for the information on the trains and recharging, I must mention here that the guy is very efficient in doing the job. All in all Metro is a boon in Delhi and if can be constructed and maintained in the same way in every city which is planning to then i would say we need not do much for public transport. The way they have built stations, parking lots which i think in no time will be converted to multi layer parking is just amazing. The vision is too good for future to sustain the population.
The first day started with Visiting India Gate..I don't know from how many years i just wanted to see it. It feels amazing to be there until you see that people in India can still litter at this place also. All the government could do is manage the surroundings just to be clean..there is a park next to it which is not at all maintained. Every body eats there and throws stuff there..So typical of us INDIANS...anyways...this monument was designed by Sir Edward Lutyens.
On the top of the India gate, is written INDIA and below that is the inscription which states
"To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afghan War"
and the walls are inscribed with the 90000 soldiers names who lost their lives in the war. After the Indo pak war the Amar Jawan Jyoti was erected at the base. The Jyoti is lit 365 days 24 hours and a guard is always standing in such a way that he is paying homage to the soldiers.
The only thing i did not like much is that people get photos clicked with the back ground of India gate. If you are saying that it is built in order to recognize the soldiers then i think we should respect the monument instead of treating it as a visitor place and get clicked there..You click but click the India gate alone not with you in it and please maintain the place neatly.
I was bowled by the architecture that was built by Lutyens. There is a part of Delhi which is called as Lutyens Delhi cause he designed everything there. One should see the roads and the foot paths and the buildings this guy planned. Its amazing, he planned four lane roads, a lane big foot path, crossings on the road, and all this even before we got independence and when i see the roads being planned so pathetically now i feel sad. No wonder a guy like E Sreedharan said he would make a underground metro in that area to save the structure built by Lutyens.
In all i would say Delhi is a wonderful place.. I know that there are reports which show that delhi is high in crime rate but for me i did not see one such incidence happening with me atleast... :) All in all i loved the city...Ofcourse did not get time to visit Chadini chowk and other such places but did shopping in Janpath and Connaught place and even saw Qutub Minar and Akashardham....
Rest of the places next time when i go to Delhi...After all you cannot complete Delhi in 3 days....
Have been to Delhi and Hissar during Diwali.
This time i get to see Delhi compared to what it was last time. Reached Delhi by afternoon and chose to stay at friends place. Gurgaon though is far from Delhi and no auto rickshaws to catch its a boon that Delhi has a metro connecting Gurgaon. We used metro completely for all the travel in Delhi.
I should mention this that for the First time i have seen such a clean platform and well maintained trains. I felt like appreciating every worker in DMRC. Its built completely to the perfection, the ads and the information is completely perfect for a person who is new to Delhi. There are enough people in the station to direct to anything you want to. We bought a DMRC railway card in order to save ourselves from standing in line all the time to buy tokens. It was a convenient way too. They take a deposit from you for the card and you keep recharging it whenever you want to with various denominations mentioned. It shows you how much it did charge for the last journey and how much is the balance on the card every time you punch in and out of a metro station. Its quite fabulous i must say. There are centers available in every station outside the punching counter for the information on the trains and recharging, I must mention here that the guy is very efficient in doing the job. All in all Metro is a boon in Delhi and if can be constructed and maintained in the same way in every city which is planning to then i would say we need not do much for public transport. The way they have built stations, parking lots which i think in no time will be converted to multi layer parking is just amazing. The vision is too good for future to sustain the population.
The first day started with Visiting India Gate..I don't know from how many years i just wanted to see it. It feels amazing to be there until you see that people in India can still litter at this place also. All the government could do is manage the surroundings just to be clean..there is a park next to it which is not at all maintained. Every body eats there and throws stuff there..So typical of us INDIANS...anyways...this monument was designed by Sir Edward Lutyens.
On the top of the India gate, is written INDIA and below that is the inscription which states
"To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afghan War"
and the walls are inscribed with the 90000 soldiers names who lost their lives in the war. After the Indo pak war the Amar Jawan Jyoti was erected at the base. The Jyoti is lit 365 days 24 hours and a guard is always standing in such a way that he is paying homage to the soldiers.
I was bowled by the architecture that was built by Lutyens. There is a part of Delhi which is called as Lutyens Delhi cause he designed everything there. One should see the roads and the foot paths and the buildings this guy planned. Its amazing, he planned four lane roads, a lane big foot path, crossings on the road, and all this even before we got independence and when i see the roads being planned so pathetically now i feel sad. No wonder a guy like E Sreedharan said he would make a underground metro in that area to save the structure built by Lutyens.
In all i would say Delhi is a wonderful place.. I know that there are reports which show that delhi is high in crime rate but for me i did not see one such incidence happening with me atleast... :) All in all i loved the city...Ofcourse did not get time to visit Chadini chowk and other such places but did shopping in Janpath and Connaught place and even saw Qutub Minar and Akashardham....
Rest of the places next time when i go to Delhi...After all you cannot complete Delhi in 3 days....
Priya.