Yes.
It only took me eleven years to get here.
Finally, I've seen it.
Along with every other tourist who comes through Delhi for a week.
Though this is what wikipedia says: it's the flame of the immortal soldier. There are some 90,000 Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Afghan wars fighting for British India, and their names are engraved on the gate.
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Apropos.
Especially in these days of flooding, the threat of dengue fever, and the mess over being unprepared for the Commonwealth Games.
Too bad.
"To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afgan War."
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