1 month and counting
It's been a month, and I think that due to the nature of the trip and the relative "newness" everyday seems to bring, I feel like I've almost forgotten about the first couple of weeks. I failed to take many pictures of Delhi, for fear of being "stared to death". Also, we were running around trying to avoid being hit by cars and robbed, most of the time. Come to think of it, we only saw one thing that was picture worthy anyway (which I got a few of, but won't post).For a huge city, the locals did not seem all that warm to tourists. I should be fair. We didn't really give it a chance. We only really spent 2 days there and were so encumbered by jet lag, we didn't really "tourist" as much as we should. Part of the reason why we went there was to go to Agra to see the Taj Mahal (the wonder of the world, not casino). It turns out that it's closed to foreigners on Fridays, which our sleazy train ticket attendant neglected to mention. Luckily we caught it in one of our books and had time to change the ticket to go to Chandigarh, which was about 4 hours north.
Chandigarh was the first planned city in India and was designed by Le Corbusier, who, if you took Art History classes in college, should recognize designed those structurally awkward churches in the French countryside that looked like sailboats and some monolithic government buildings around the world. Being a planned city, all of the streets followed the same layout and the entire city was divided into sectors. I thought that it was horribly monotonous, and felt like I was traveling in circles the whole time, but it was nice. It was actually considered to be one of the wealthier cities in the country. The people were ok, and I met my first Indian friend named Deepanshu. He studies there.
While there we went to a famous Rock Garden that, surprisingly seemed more of a Tim Burton prop-lot than anything. The man who built it was a city worker cum artist who did it secretly for like 10 years. It was so much fun. There were thousands and thousands of little rock creatures and people and the layout was sprnikled with giant man made waterfalls, streams and cliffs. It was enormous too. Way bigger than I expected. The website for it, which surely does it more justice than I could, is www.nekchand.com
These are just 2 of the pics I got.
P.S. So, did Karl Rove get thrown out on his rear yet? I think I heard something of the sort during my 3 minutes of news watching a week.
posted by Matt at 4:31 AM
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Looks like you guys are having a blast...and no, Rove is not out yet, but Libby got indicted and resigned. We won't know about Rove till Monday....thought you might like that tid-bit ;)
Crazy Karl sounds like he has weaseled his way out of troule again. At least Cheney's geriatric nurse resigned. Thanks for the update.
Actually, it looks like Fitzgerald will piggy-back on another Grand Jury to continue his probe. He made it clear that Rove is still in the spotlight. Neocons think it will all blow away. The rest of us hope the administration will suffocate in its own rapdily rising doo-doo.
Check this out- it's the opening line from this week's Time Magazine story -
Scooter libby always had a knack for fiction. He once penned a thriller set in Japan that a critic praised for its "storytelling skill" and "conspiratorial murmurs."
I am absolutely smacking my lips over the real possibility that they are going to get Rove. As of yesterday there are over 2000 dead and at least 15,000 wounded and maimed Americans from the Iraq war - when I think of what they put Clinton through for Monica I want to hurl...
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