In India of the late 1500s, Akbar the Great* commissioned three magnificent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture: the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, his father Humayun’s tomb in Delhi and finally […]
This is the paradox of India, buildings so beautiful, and shit everywhere.” I am quoting a conversation I had with a woman who came into the washroom of the Baby […]
After an early morning at the Taj Mahal we negotiated for a tuk-tuk (as we called the three-wheeled vehicles) to take us around to a few other sites in Agra. […]
In the morning we went off to the Agra Fort with Abbib, a auto-rickshaw driver we had met the day before. The Agra Fort, a 16th-century Mughal fortress, is another UNESCO […]
This picture was shot during our bus ride to Fatehpur Sikri, a walled city in India. I couldn’t see much because the driver was blocking my view but, “you really don’t […]
At six the gates opened to the Taj Mahal and a crowd raced to the east side where the Taj was set aglow by the rising sun. We were alone as we headed […]
The trouble with photographing architectural masterpieces is that they’ve already been photographed about a billion times before. The Taj Mahal is no exception, a mausoleum of white marble built by […]
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