Sit and watch the world go by. In India, no less.

I mentioned in my previous post about how fascinating it was to just watch the local people go about their daily business.

India is an interesting connundrum.

Massive cement structures towering out of nowhere amidst traditional roadside chaat stalls; the nouveau-riche in their BMWs and Volkswagons with their uniformed drivers share the dusty roads alongside the masses squeezed onto 2-wheelers and 3-wheelers; CNG buses and a new metro system have set up shop in Delhi, but the locals haven't quite yet acquired the etiquette that comes along with a modern public transportation system.

The signs of a rapidly developing economy are everywhere; and yet, the pulse of old, colonial India still remains.

And that is precisely the charm that India still holds sway over the throngs of visitors who continue to roam its endless attractions.

The locals love to take photos with foreigners, and many don't mind you taking some of them too. In fact, the school children are so excited to see a tourist that they are all jumping and shouting and cheering for you to focus your camera on their smiling faces.

These are several candid shots that I was lucky enough to capture during my wanderings-around.

A lady seeking shade in the columned ruins of the Qutab Minar complex

Excited school children on an excursion to Humayun's tomb

Worshippers going to the Jama Masjid for evening prayers



A driver having a break along the road outside Agra



A family wandering the ruins of the Qutab Minar complex

A local giving directions to a tourist at Isa Khan Niyazi's tomb

Passenger safety takes on a whole new meaning outside Delhi

Workers resting near the Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi

A toursit couple seeks a quiet moment in Lodhi Garden

Wonder what's his story....outside the Jama Masjid

Dhoti-clad men out and about

The cluttered alleys of Old Delhi's Chandni Chowk