New Delhi

We saw New Delhi on a Sunday. Traffic was a lot lighter than expected (but plenty noisy), and so was the smog. At the India Gate there were modest crowds of sightseers, and a ton of cricket games going on on the Mall. The Bungalow district, where the top level civil servants of India have lived since 1930, was peaceful. The bungalow boundary walls were topped with barbed wire, and had guards at the gates and in the watchtowers at the corners. All the sidewalks are under repair, being relaid with paving stones. Those two features together could explain why there were few pedestrians. There are almost no structures visible above the trees. The odd angles that the roads met at traffic circles, and the circles themselves, made it tough to keep track of what direction we were headed, despite monuments at the far end of major vistas.