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A quickie. Up by 7am, walked around the holy lake at Pushkar. Had breakfast overlooking the lake then took off our shoes to walk over the ...

Here are some pictures from the park. Our guide was Satto (pronounced Shatto) and he warmed up to us slowly and the second day we went look...

Here's the "Hotel Raghav Resort" in Pushkar, Rajastan. Joan is locking our door that opens to the rooftop 'garden' wi...

Dianne, here's the list for you. Much of what the park is famous for is missing because water has been diverted for irrigation for far...

Catching up with some pictures of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Thank you Sanjit for making sure we came here.

We are in Pushkar now. a tiny - by Indian standards - town around a lake. Staying in an old house with a roof top patio shaded by a huge ta...

The day before yesterday was the ride from Delhi to the Taj Mahal. Our driver, Pawan, speaks enough English, that at first meeting, and comp...

It is very nice to be in a place with an abundance of vegetarian restaurants, and for Veg to be the choice and then comes “Non-Veg”. Menu f...

I tried to take a good picture of the Taj that wasn't the same one everyone else takes. These are the tiles in front of the entrance to...

The conference was at JNU - known as a leftist university - so everyone there was pleased. The former Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice...

You've all seen so many pictures of the Taj Mahal what can I add to those images? All I can say is that despite everything, seeing the ...

We gave up on the idea of going to the Golden Temple at 4 am to see the Book procession. That turned out to be fine and we got to sleep in ...

I posted pictures of the conference, but haven't really talked about the substance. I'm still processing and will talk about it soo...

Last night K. Angela and Kuldip Nar hosted us and two other conference attendees for dinner. First they took us to Dilly Haat - like a Satu...

This is Anil at the FACT Guest House. He did everything there including cooking our delicious breakfasts and one dinner. Here he is in the...

Qutab Minar was built around 1200 by the early Moghul rulers of India. The tower is amazing and the grounds are well kept. We walked aroun...

Some pictures from my first morning at JNU. The campus is a wooded oasis in New Delhi. Dianne, These are for you!! That morning I learned...

Yesterday evening when Nitin (right on the picture) came over to give us the train tickets to Amritsar (680Rupees, about $16 for both of us ...

Getting lost is something pretty common here. Our first night was apparently typical. There are almost no street signs. Taxi drivers get ...