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 fruits grow because of it.

"They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season." Psalm 1:3