India Gate
I overshot the time estimate to get from the office to dinner at the Delhi Golf Club with Piya's family, so we stopped at India Gate, which is close by to walk around beforehand. I was glad to have come here at night - there is a lot of activity: families meeting out on the lawns, kids selling helium balloons, ice cream vendors all in a row in idle evening chat, and little neon slingshot parachutes tumbling down from the sky (also being peddled by dozens of wandering vendors). The monument's shape resembles the Arc de Triomphe, but up close is quite different. The glow of India Gate is visible from through the trees as you drive toward it by car, and names of 90,000 Indian soldiers who died in WWI and the Afghan Wars are inscribed on its body of bricks.