{"id":158,"date":"2006-04-05T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-04-05T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:44:23","slug":"duck-duck-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/duck-duck-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck, Duck, Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"

or, Travels through Hauz Khas Park with Camera in Hand.<\/p>\n

Hauz Khas literally means ‘Special Tank’. It’s a neighbourhood in Delhi named after a small lake built for the Sultan of Delhi’s wife to have her bath (I’m a little hazy on the exact historical details).<\/p>\n

There are actually three Hauz Khas neighbourhoods today. Hauz Khas, which has genteel middle class homes. Hauz Khas Enclave, which is also residential, but much richer. And Hauz Khas Village: the old village, which is now a tourist destination where rich (and perhaps gullible) tourists come to spend money on designer clothes and eat at fancy restaraunts.<\/p>\n

Hauz Khas Village is right next to Hauz Khas Park, which is lots of parkland surrounding the old lake, and the tombs and palaces built next to it. I took an evening walk in the park today, and had my camera along.<\/p>\n

(Photos below the cut)<\/p>\n

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Six years ago, when I finished school, the lake was entirely dry, and trees were growing out of the lake bed. The lake started filling up again about two or three years ago, and when I visited today, was just deep enough to allow boats to float. The water is now up to the branches of the trees that used to grow there.<\/p>\n

\"Hauz<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that the water has filled up, the park authorities have also introduced ducks and geese to the lake. Such as this magnificent specimen:<\/p>\n

\"Goose<\/a><\/p>\n

This particular goose had left the lake and was strolling along the walkway around it with much more elegance and composure than the humans there. A group of perturbed aunties asked the security guard whose legs you can see in the background to chase the goose away. The goose treated the guard with imperious disdain for a while, but finally got the picture and went down the walls to the lake.<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, some sardar kids noticed I was photographing birds, and pointed out these two geese which had built a nest inside an electric switchgear shed.<\/p>\n

\"Freshly<\/a><\/p>\n

The ducks weren’t as adventurous about leaving the water, which is why the shot doesn’t look that great: I had to photograph them from an angle, and from three or four feet above. I think the graininess is because I had to use digital zoom.<\/p>\n

\"Ducks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There were some other ducks below a small bridge, but the light was so bad by then that none of the photos came out properly.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I might go there for a morning walk and photograph the tombs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

or, Travels through Hauz Khas Park with Camera in Hand. Hauz Khas literally means ‘Special Tank’. It’s a neighbourhood in Delhi named after a small lake built for the Sultan of Delhi’s wife to have her bath (I’m a little hazy on the exact historical details). There are actually three Hauz Khas neighbourhoods today. Hauz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}