New Delhi

New Delhi was designed by the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The inauguration was in 1931. A bombastic avenue called Rajpath links the colonial seat and now presidential palace with India Gate, a monument for the Indian soldiers killed in the first world war. Office and Housing buildings line the avenues on both sides of Rajpath

 On sunday afternoons, the area around India gate is very popular. People go for a walk, families have a picnic and street vendors try to earn some rupies

 

A little further on is the exhibition centre. When I passed by, there was a car exhibition and big crowds tried to get in. It seemed to be the place to take out one's girl-friend for a day. At the moment there are comparably few private cars in India, and if they do not change their driving habits, it will be hell when everybody who wants one will get one....

 

 On the contrary, the enormous National gallery of modern Art is practically empty. Of visitors, I mean, not of pieces of art, which are packed into the building. Maybe some reader can discover a kind of specific Indian incarnation of modern art. I couldn't, but, OK, maybe I am not a specialist.... it looked all like another version of similar western master pieces.