Splendour of Lodi Road English 2012

The Splendour of Lodi Road is a wonderful must for Dilliwallahsas well as for the thousands of tourists and other people who visitthis city. Ravi Batra has captured the historical essence of themonuments on this road in utterly delightful paintings. There is agentle transparency, a lyrical fluidity, a dreamlike impressionwhen reality is rendered in watercolours. Malvika Singh In the words of Ravi Batra There is perhaps no other road inDelhi, or even the whole world, which connects, over a distance ofjust four kilometres, a unique heritage gateways, mosques, tombs,gardens and even a step-well and a bridge. They were built duringsuccessive empires and over several centuries, with differentarchitectural styles and building materials. They include Humayun sTomb a UNESCO World Heritage site . The text provides historical,architectural and anecdotal information on each monument.