I was at a small faculty meeting today at Paris-Dauphine and introduced myself to my neighbour who shook hands with me and told me that last time he saw me it was in Agra! As it transpired, this colleague from the Law School, whom I had never met before, was visiting Agra at the same time as we were, stayed in the same hotel, and saw my Paris-Dauphine sweat-shirt at dinner (he was presumably wearing more neutral clothes)! Given the number of tourists visiting Agra at this time of the year, it is not such an immense coincidence that I met someone from Paris-Dauphine (after all, my other neighbour had also visited Agra a little while ago), but it still is a remarkable one that we ended up in the same hotel and that I chose to wear my Paris-Dauphine sweat-shirt that night…
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one of those coincidences…
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Agra, sweat-shirt, Taj Mahal, Université Paris Dauphine, vacations on January 27, 2013 by xi'anIndia snapshot (#11)
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Agra, Agra Fort, India, Utter Pradesh on January 7, 2013 by xi'an
While Agra attracts tourists for the Taj Mahal, the Agra Fort is another particularly interesting feature of the city. With much less press. (The domes in the back are not from the Taj Mahal!)
India snapshot (#9)
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Agra, Fatephur Sikri, India, mosque, Uttar Pradesh on January 6, 2013 by xi'an
A late stop at Fatephur Sikri (फ़तेहपुर सीकरी), the fabulous city of Sikriwal Rajput Raja, abandoned after fifteen years for lack of sufficient water resources.. We were on our way to Agra by then, only to hit the most chaotic traffic-jam I ever saw! It actually a mystery we did manage to get out of it, so intricate and lawless was it.
