Sensory Overload

 

The morning started softly and cool, with a visit to Raj Ghat, the memorial park near the Yamuna River where Gandhiji's, Neru's, Indira Gandhi's, and her son Rajiv's ashes are buried.  The park is huge, but the memorial for Gandhi is rather small, in a grassy area looking as if it were dug out of a hill, with a marble platform in the middle, and surrounded by stone walls.  While I was in there, workers were making designs with flower petals on the marble slab. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leaving there, I felt calm and moved by all that Gandhi stood for.  Then we headed to the Red Fort, the huge complex built by Shah Jahan in the early 17th century.  That is when the sensory overload began and did not stop until about an hour ago.  I am leaving for Agra tomorrow, so the images of the Red Fort and Chandni Chowk will have to wait until I'm settled in tomorrow night.  They are worth waiting for.  Maybe the hotel there will have more than 1Mbs internet connectivity, so the uploads won't be so painful.

 

The nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights.  The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.  - M. K. Gandhi, 25AUG1920