May 21 2010
Delhi – Travel Through Ages
By Ruchira Roy
A multi-faceted city, Delhi presents a glorious intertwining of the contemporary and the old. The very name of Delhi rolls out a picture of a powerful place that ruled many empires, a place where many mighty emperors rose and fell and the place that now governs the largest democracy in the world. Truly metropolitan to the core, Delhi is made of people from all corners of the country. Quite naturally, the city speaks a jumble of some odd vernaculars and has a culture which is a concoction of various elements.
Delhi is home to two different worlds altogether. One is the ancient world that still survives time and the other world is all new that shows the present and the future of the nation. Thanks to the masters who laid the city, Delhi is clearly marked out as Old Delhi and New Delhi. A visit to the older part takes you back in time while its contemporary counterpart talks of everything modern, contemporary and even futuristic.
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