Bucket list: Agrasen ki Baoli
"Agrasen ki Baoli" was on my bucket list for a long time. As I sat within the monument surrounded by its ancient walls, I found it ironic that the many steps leading into the deep well was made precisely to do away for the need of a bucket. Having lived in Delhi for over seven years and despite having lived so close to this quaint site for so long, it was also ironic that I would finally reach the step-well only as a visitor. I had imagined this site to be somewhere in Old Delhi, among narrow lanes and packed houses, but it came as a surprise that it was actually in middle New-Delhi, and a walking distance from the famous Connaught Place with its wide roads and tall stately buildings. In the same afternoon, I got an opportunity to walk past Delhi's famous Lotus temple, designed after India's national flower that blooms on water bodies. Later in the day as I re-read Psalm 1, I reflected whether life was really about finding water so that flowers would bloom and fruit...