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A Twist in the History of India

            The Corridors running around the central open space at Fatehpur Sikri are delightful to look at but very very hard to photograph as they are very dimly lit, dirty and the light coming in from the archways very harsh.

In India, even in a place like this with so much of history, where keeping the monument in prim and prisine condition should be a priority,  there are sellers of bric a brac and souvenirs laid makeshift on the floor.

Then there is a problem with the historical rendition of the country itself. We have to understand that India has always been a nation of small kingdoms with a constant stream of invaders coming in from the Khyber Pass to make empires for the Moslems first and then after the advances in ship building and guns, the Portuguese and the English.

The subterranean efforts to somehow erase the history by denigrating the invaders and washing out historical texts in the schools and colleges is an ongoing effort.

I have kept the lighting muted to hide the problems elsewhere but here there were no such issues.

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Taken on: November 8, 2008

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Sets appears in: • Fatehpur Sikri and Agra

Camera: Nikon D300, f/7.1, 1/80 sec, 12mm (=18mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300
Lens:	Tokina AT-X 124 PRO DX 12-24mm F4(IF)
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	12mm (35mm equivalent: 18mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	Low
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows)
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