@himganj153 A well put together list. Must I also add
Elizabeth Chatterjee 'Delhi Mostly Harmless : One Woman's Vision of the City' and @sammillerdelhi 'Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity'
and more that I have read but these are among my favorites on Delhi.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Earthset.
The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.
Fall of Delhi
OTD 1857
Despite strict orders against individual looting, many of Delhi's treasures filled the pockets of the troops who captured the city during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). The loot was supposed to have been handed over to official prize agents who would then auction it and divide the proceeds. As this print depicts, the agents and their soldiers had few scruples when it came to how they gathered the loot. Contemporaries estimated the auctioned Delhi treasure to be worth over half a million pounds.
on my 26th birthday, i wrote I Took A Pill in Ibiza...11 years ago. The song became popular several years after i wrote it.
This year I celebrated my 37th birthday. I feel proud to look at the song lyrics and know that NONE of them are true anymore. I've grown into a completely new man...one that i'm proud of. check this out...
@mukhoty If I remember correctly, Lord Lake who captured Delhi in 1803 subsequently gave up after setting siege at Bhatarpur but then it was Combermere who successfully captured the fort. Is this the same siege as shown in the map?