A Day in Delhi

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Was easing into the India thing yesterday, so didn't do anything too hectic. Here, you can hire a driver to drive you around for about $20/day. Good deal! Got sort of a late start yesterday because I was just putzing around my hotel room. But eventually made it into Delhi to visit the Mahatma Gandhi Museum, the Samadhis of Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, and Rajiv Gandhi. I ended the day at the National History Museum.

The Mahatma Gandhi Museum rocks. If you love Gandhi (and who doesn't?), this is the place to be. They have an amazing collection of photographs from every period of Gandhi's life. Even more impressive, they a crapload of Gandhi artifacts, like towels that he's used, various blankets and bedsheets, old wooden sandals, old leather sandals, monocles, the walking stick he used on the March to Dandi, and even the blood-stained clothing from his assassination. Luckily, the Museum got a hold of all these items before eBay was invented. As comprehensive as the museum was, I'm surprised that they didn't mention the controversy about the Father of the Indian Nation not being full Indian, rather, being some British bloke with sketchy-at-best "Indian lineage." Oh well. The Museum is still great.

And the New York Times is totally right. There are monkeys everywhere!