I’ve made a couple more system maps for the Delhi Metro rail network. They can be accessed at my Chasing the Metro blog. Clicking on the maps below will also take you to that blog (specifically its Route Maps page). Continue reading
Tag Archives: contemporary delhi
Crazy Delhi Shenanigans
You see some crazy things while walking around Delhi!
The incredible floating sink, Chandni Chowk (photo taken in 2009)
The incredible floating ladder, Hauz Qazi Chowk (hint: it’s a prop to advertise the aluminum store below)
Take that, NDMC demolition squad! In front of New Delhi Railway Station, Ajmeri Gate
Public utility, meet private property, Mehrauli
Photos from Around Delhi
Just a few photos from around Delhi.
Stationary galli at Atta Market (which is in Noida but I’ve used the NCR licence to include it in Delhi)
Small crane sitting on a pile of sand between two Delhi Metro viaducts, Mayur Vihar
No Tolerance Zone :)
Street sign near Defence Colony market. Thanks for letting us know!! :)
An Unofficial Delhi Metro Route Map
(Updated Delhi Metro maps are available at Chasing the Metro — 13/03/2018 Update)
Since the people at Delhi Metro still haven’t come out with a route map that I’m even half-way happy with, I decided to make one of my own! Continue reading
(Don’t Be A) Shoppoholic!!
Driving around Delhi and spotted this billboard at a petrol pump (on Mathura Road, in Nizamuddin). The image looked really familiar and then I realized that it was a picture I had clicked at Dilli Haat’s Nature Bazaar a couple of Novembers back! Continue reading
Barapullah Nala in Spate
I went down to the Barapullah Nala (drain) to photograph the progress of the elevated road, and found the nala in spate because of today’s heavy rains. Here are a few photos. Continue reading
Another Usurped Gumbad
One of the side advantages of Delhi Metro is that it’s elevated sections skim over Delhi’s low roof-line (at least for now), providing long views of rooftops and the surrounding city fabric.
On one such journey on the Red Line, I spotted an old gumbad (domed building) sticking out from surrounding newer houses near the Pratap Nagar station. I got off to explore the gumbad, and of course at ground level it was much harder to spot in the maze of surrounding residential streets. Continue reading
Lodhi-ear Toilet Update: Revenge of the Modern
The “Lodhi-era toilet” coming up at Defence Colony Market is much nearer completion now, and while we’ve been spared a Lodhi tomb replica, this is now turning out to be some kind of “modern design smashing through a representation of Delhi’s past” kind of thing. So it seems a bullet has been dodged (no Lodhi-era toilet!), but this throws up a whole new set of intriguing ideas! Continue reading
Delhi’s new "Lodhi era" toilets
Okay, so when I mentioned a few posts back about dearly lacking “coordinated innovation” among the various government agencies that look after Delhi’s urban landscape, this is not the solution I had in mind! Public toilets that look like Lodhi-era tombs from the 15th and 16th centuries? Really? Continue reading
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