So Eli and I have been visiting a family that lives two blocks over. Rajish gets home from work about 9 pm and we usually hang out til 11 or 12. He is really cool and we have been able to talk about a lot of stuff because he knows pretty good English.
This is a picture with his entire family. He has a younger sister Roni who is 18 and another younger sister Jothi who is 12. It is so fun just going over to their house and joking around.
This is him and his sisters.
Eli can be hilarious sometimes.
This past Sunday Rajish mom took us all to some historic places around Delhi. We went to this place with a minar which is in the background..
Qutab Minar is a soaring, 73 m-high tower of victory, built in 1193 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak immediately after the defeat of Delhi’s last Hindu kingdom. The tower has five distinct storeys, each marked by a projecting balcony and tapers from a 15 m diameter at the base to just 2.5 m at the top. The first three storeys are made of red sandstone; the fourth and fifth storeys are of marble and sandstone. At the foot of the tower is the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, the first mosque to be built in India. An inscription over its eastern gate provocatively informs that it was built with material obtained from demolishing ’27 Hindu temples’.
Rajish took this picture and I think Eli has his eyes closed.
Good times.
Rajish can be a ham sometimes.
This is on the way to the lotus temple. The Ba’hai faith’s most beutiful temple is here in Delhi, India.
We had just gone to a Hindu temple before this where I got the mark on my forehead. Don’t I look Indian!
The lotus temple is a prayer temple and you cannot bring cameras or cell phones in. They don’t let you talk either so it is very quiet when you go in.
