Saturday, July 9, 2011

You Girls Are Unique Here.

  We went to the Victoria Memorial today, which was interesting... Yeah, that's probably the best of way of describing it. "It houses a museum containing a large collection of memorabilia relating to Queen Victoria and the British presence in India as well as other exhibits. The Memorial also contains a Royal Gallery housing a number of portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and paintings illustrating their lives. After India gained independence in the year 1947, certain additions were made to the Victoria Memorial. These additions formed National Leader's Gallery, containing the portraits and relics relating to Indian independence." (Wikipedia). 
  The Memorial was originally established to commemorate British presence in India. At the ground breaking, "Queen Victoria's great-grandson David, Prince of Wales quoted Queen Victoria's proclamation of 1858 about the Indians: 'In their prosperity will be our strength; in their contentment our security; and in their gratitude our best reward.'" (Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire). Indian Summer, ironically, goes on to say that the prince's tour "revealed the acute unpopularity of the British in India."
   We probably had 30 pictures taken of us today and about half of them asked to be in the pictures with us. A man also told us that former President Bush was "a dictator". Flat out told us that our last president was a dictator... It was rather strange day to say the least. We also, went to St. Paul's Cathedral, which was Beautiful! We went to Fresh and Juicy for dinner and I had some Chicken Tikka Kebabs that were really good.










































No comments:

Post a Comment