On our last day in India it was incredibly hot and humid. Near the Red Fort in Delhi we visited Rag Ghat, a memorial honoring the site where Gandhi was cremated after his assassination in 1948. There are many memorials to others in the area but the shining attraction seems to be the one of Gandhi as he meant so much to India. You drive into hectic city life in Delhi where you are in the midst of crowded streets, gruesome traffic and vendors in your space trying to sell you their wares. Then you walk into a beautiful spacious garden area filled with grass and flowers and quiet and follow the path to his monument where you respectfully remove your shoes before entering as you would for a religious mosque. In the center of a brick enclosure stands the black marble monument on which burns an eternal flame in his honor and atop are five rings of flowers that our guide said each represents one of the elements. This visit seems to be a perfect example of the extremes we found throughout our trip to India.
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