New Delhi
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New Delhi, the capital the British built between 1911 and 1931, grew up around a city that was already full of tombs. After a morning in Old Delhi, I spent the afternoon of September 23, 2022, at one of the finest, Humayun’s Tomb, the garden tomb his widow built for the second Mughal emperor, finished in 1572, and a model for the Taj Mahal I had seen in Agra three days before. Its grounds hold older tombs too, among them the octagonal tomb of Isa Khan, a noble at the court of Sher Shah Suri. The next afternoon, in the rain, I went to the National War Memorial, opened in 2019 beside India Gate, where a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had been unveiled under the canopy two weeks before.
Photos from New Delhi
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Humayun’s Tomb, finished in 1572, the garden tomb that the Taj Mahal followed.
The Barber’s Tomb in Humayun’s garden, with the blue dome of the Nila Gumbad beyond.
The National War Memorial, with India Gate and the new statue of Netaji behind it.