Story of Delhi Metro

If you are a Delhiwala and has heartfelt love for Delhi,metro love is the first choice  you feel,airconditioned,clean,speedy and luxuirious nature causes you to be in it and have a cool journey via it but the fantasy of visiting Delhi completes when you reach those places nearby metro which add a flavor in your day.

The Heritage Metro line is open (ITO to Kashmere Gate), Delhi Metro has joined with Delhi Walks for an amazing food walk around Old Delhi. If you’re a true blue Delhiite or just someone who wants to experience the most culturally rich side of Delhi, this Delhi Metro food walk is for you.

Delhi’s metro is quiet, clean, calm and incredibly cheap: 100 rupees (about £1) loaded on to a smart ticket should be enough for four days of sightseeing. You’ll need to pay extra for rickshaws from stations to outlying attractions, but, at an average of 40 rupees (40p) a ride, that is unlikely to break the bank.Security is tight, with a bag check and body scan at each ticket gate, often supervised by gun-toting officers.

ou emerge on Rajpath, Delhi’s most impressive boulevard, with the mighty arch of India Gate, a 1931 war memorial designed by Edwin Lutyens at its head. Flanked by lawns and monuments, this is the site of Delhi’s passeggiata, and at sunset, candy floss and ice-cream sellers, bubble blowers and henna artists set up stall. Museum lovers are well catered for: the National Museum, Crafts Museum and Gallery of Modern Art are all a walk or a short rickshaw ride away. Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.

Two stops further south will take you to the Gandhi Smriti Museum, where Mahatma Gandhi spent his last days and was assassinated in 1948. The museum is a comprehensive record of his life, displaying photographs, quotes and video footage, along with the few possessions he left behind, including his trademark spectacles. Following in his last footsteps and seeing the spot where he was gunned down is a moving experience. Nearby is the Indira Gandhi Memorial, where the assassinated prime minister’s rooms are preserved, offering a window into the elegant lives of Delhi’s political elite. a mausoleum built in 1754 for one of the most important Mughal nobles. Nearby, and more diverting, is Lodi Gardens, a peaceful park dotted with the tombs of Sayyid and Lodhi rulers, and a haven for the city’s butterflies and birds. Come late afternoon it’s full of boys playing cricket, power walkers, picnicking families and canoodling couples.

   A mausoleum built in 1754 for one of the most important Mughal nobles. Nearby, and more diverting, is Lodi Gardens, a peaceful park dotted with the tombs of Sayyid and Lodhi rulers, and a haven for the city’s butterflies and birds. Come late afternoon it’s full of boys playing cricket, power walkers, picnicking families and canoodling couples.

Hauz Khas, Delhi’s hippest hangout, is a short rickshaw ride away. Set by a deer park and the crumbling ruins of Mughal tombs, this compact urban village is crammed with galleries, boutiques, bars and restaurants.  

Two stops down from Green Park and the most southerly of our destinations, this station is a short rickshaw ride from the Qutab Minar complex, home to a triumphal 72-metre minaret, built to celebrate the advent of Muslim dominance in Delhi. 

Khan Market a big draw for wealthy Delhiites and expats. This station, on the Violet line, one stop east from Central Secretariat, is the place to buy tailored clothes.  Khan Market is also one of the closest stops to Humayun’s Tomb, still a 20-minute rickshaw ride away, but a must-see. Built in the 1560, the gigantic mausoleum is an example of a great tomb-building tradition which reached its apogee 100 years later with the Taj Mahal. The resting place of emperor Humayun is one of the most peaceful and atmospheric spots in Delhi.At the heart of New Delhi’s commercial district, this stop drops you at Connaught Place, a series of colonnaded neo-classical Georgian crescents built by the British between 1929 and 1933. 

 Chandni Chowk coughs you straight into Old Delhi, the oldest, most chaotic and colourful part of the city. A medieval world of ancient bazaars, dark, narrow alleyways and hand-pulled carts, this is India at its most extreme, and its most saddening: gangrenous beggars, crippled goats and mangy dogs are only some of the sights you’ll witness.

Old Delhi is also where you will find two of the city’s most notable landmarks: the wonderfully atmospheric Lal Qila, or Red Fort, built from sandstone in 1639 for Shah Jahan; and Jama Masjid, India’s largest mosque and one of its finest buildings, with three huge domes, a pair of minarets and a courtyard that holds 25,000 worshippers. 

Delhi is jaan for every Delhities who stay here ,enjoy here and sing the song of Delhi that is Delhi is dilwalo ki.