Here's some stuff for History buffs:
HISTORY TODAY: In 1931, capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.
New Delhi was built between 1912 and 1929 on a site adjacent to Delhi (or Old Delhi), which had been chosen to replace Calcutta as the capital of British India in 1911; New Delhi was thus inaugurated as the new capital in 1931.
>>Designed by architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, New Delhi has broad, symmetrically aligned streets ...

(I've been wondrin.. how cum ND happen to have better

roads!  .. Now i know the reason ;) 

Mahabaleshwar: view from inside one of The Unfinished Monolithic Temples (Circa 600 AD). Pic from Sep'02 trip

Einstein, the brainy bird... Mannn.. this is ammazzzinn stuff !
Einstein proves why she's a bird brain. Watch her winning moment.
http://media.animal.discovery.com/fansites/petstar/videogallery/season3/ep309_winner.html

London: A world in one city >> Guardian Unlimited | Special reports

Pretty interesting stuff !

Here's the Topographic Map of India & Pak prepared by US Army Map Service -
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/india/250k.html
It's divided roughly in 150x100km blocks. Can click on each block
to get the 1:250,000 (ie., 1cm = 2.5km ) map of the block.