India: New Delhi’s Metro Provides a Slice of Time Travel

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 12th, 2010 | Trackback

An element of time travel is available in New Delhi as the city’s Metro nears completion in time for the Commonwealth Games in October. The first section opened in 2002 and as new lines have gone into service, Delhi’s residents have taken to it with pride. The time travel comes in when a visitor emerges from the clean, efficient and modern Metro to neighborhoods that reflect the Delhi of past centuries: chaotic, crowded, with sacred cows and saddhus wandering the narrow lanes. Both worlds represent today’s Delhi, and both are embraced by the city’s inhabitants.

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