The first acquaintance. Dzhavaharlal neru

you are: the First acquaintance

But we will return to Delhi. It grasps and captivates, as, perhaps, any other city of the country. In it its past and the present have incorporated, the future base is pawned. It is oldest of existing cities of India. Assert, that to it almost four thousand years, that it costs on place Indraprasthi, a city based by legendary brothers Pandavami which feats are sung by the epos ' a Mahabharata '.

Well, very capaciously Dzhavaharlal Nehru has told about a city, the first prime minister of independent India: ' We stand here, in Delhi, a symbol of old India and new. Its value is defined not by narrow streets and ordinary-looking houses of Old Delhi and not open space and pretentious enough buildings of New Delhi, but spirit of this ancient city. As Delhi is a clot of history of India in which the blossoming periods were replaced by wrecks and which has shown great ability to absorb many cultures, being oneself... Both good and bad India we see in Delhi which became a tomb of many empires and a republic cradle. What grandiose book: continually here traces of millenia of our history '.

How many time we were convinced of justice of these words.

That first day from airport Palam we have got at once to New Delhi. It has started to be created since 1911 when Englishmen have decided to transfer here from Calcutta the capital. The car rushed us in diplomatic quarter along the street Shanti-path (' a world way ') by stylised basically under national architecture of imposing buildings of the foreign embassies located in the heart of spacious manors, then in shady quarters of buried in verdure palaces and private residences, where before a vein the English nobility. Wishing, probably to show us magnificence of a new city faster, the driver has carried us in the centre. There behind an openwork pig-iron lattice of extraordinary height the dome of a huge building of a presidential palace from red sandstone rose among a magnificent garden. Before the palace served as residence of the British vice-kings. The widest and magnificent prospectus of New Delhi - Radzhpath ("a state way") from here begins. At once from a lattice of palace territory two long buildings of Secretary from light yellow sandstone where have taken places office of the prime minister, the Ministries for Foreign Affairs, internal affairs and other governmental departments were stretched on either side of the prospectus.