i explain you the delhi.

I wasn't necessarily expecting to like Delhi. Diana had warned me that it was a government town, the most smoothly run (and in that sense most boring) place I could possibly go in India. And you know, I can see that. The British influence is still strong in Delhi, but it's not just that -- Delhi's making a huge push to become a major international city. Its metro, which opened in 2002, is gorgeous, its traffic patterns more or less make sense, and we visited a mall in South Delhi that was one of the most surreal experiences of the whole trip -- had I not known for a fact that we were still in India, I would have sworn I'd been dropped into Southern California.

Having said all this, I really liked Delhi.






We wandered through markets and the Red Fort and a mosque in Old Delhi; ate delicious mutton cooked on a grill on the street; visited Gandhi Smriti (the museum in the house where Gandhi was assassinated) and Rajghat (the park where Gandhi was cremated); shopped till we dropped in Karol Bagh and got pedicures from hot men at a day spa in Greater Kailash 1. Delhi seemed full of possibility, ready for anything. I like that in a city.