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A Perfect song I can think of this capture is -- Azadi by A.R. Rahman.
This song just drives my nerves with High electric patriotic current giving a superb "I am Proud Indian" feeling..

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Jai hind jai hind,
Jai hind ka nara,
Har dil hind pukara,
Dushman ko lalkara..

Jaage hain ab saare,
Log tere dekh watan,
Gunje hai naro se, ab ye zameen aur ye gagan,
Kal tak main tanha tha, sune the sab raste,
Kal tak main tanha tha, par ab hain saath mere,
Lakho dilo ki dhadkan, dekh watan,

Azaaadi payenge
Azaaadi layenge
Azaaadi chaayegi
Azaaadi aayegi aayegi !!

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Captured @ RedFort, Delhi

Scientific Name : Milvus migrans
Hindi Names : चील, घार

The Black Kite is a medium-sized bird of prey. Unlike others of the group, they are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge. They spend a lot of time soaring and gliding in thermals in search of food. Their angled wing and distinctive forked tail make them easy to identify.

The picture was taken at Humayun Tomb where the Kite was resting on the palm trunk adding the color match with the bird which made it look quite interesting.

जहाँ हर चीज है प्यारी
सभी चाहत के पुजारी
प्यारी जिसकी ज़बां
वही है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

जहाँ ग़ालिब की ग़ज़ल है
वो प्यारा ताज महल है
प्यार का एक निशां
वही है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

जहाँ फूलों का बिस्तर है
जहाँ अम्बर की चादर है
नजर तक फैला सागर है
सुहाना हर इक मंजर है
वो झरने और हवाएँ,
सभी मिल जुल कर गायें
प्यार का गीत जहां
वही है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

जहां सूरज की थाली है
जहां चंदा की प्याली है
फिजा भी क्या दिलवाली है
कभी होली तो दिवाली है
वो बिंदिया चुनरी पायल
वो साडी मेहंदी काजल
रंगीला है समां
वही है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

कही पे नदियाँ बलखाएं
कहीं पे पंछी इतरायें
बसंती झूले लहराएं
जहां अन्गिन्त हैं भाषाएं
सुबह जैसे ही चमकी
बजी मंदिर में घंटी
और मस्जिद में अजां
वही है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

कहीं गलियों में भंगड़ा है
कही ठेले में रगडा है
हजारों किस्में आमों की
ये चौसा तो वो लंगडा है
लो फिर स्वतंत्र दिवस आया
तिरंगा सबने लहराया
लेकर फिरे यहाँ-वहां
वहीँ है मेरा हिन्दुस्तां

By - Wasi Bastavi

* This is one of my favorite moment capture taken at RedFort, Delhi. Just had taken out my camera, was setting up my lens outside the ticket window and saw the person smiling in diagonal direction as if he is looking up towards flag. Quickly I captured it..

I was just relaxing in laws of Redfort and crew of squirrels were just playing around me.
In order to get snaps and not to scare them off , I was in statue mode - motionless.
One of them was so curious that she literally climbed on my thighs number of times, looking at me..
I couldn't stop smiling in excitement but yeah got one good capture when WE were looking into each others eyes..

Captured @ Red Fort Lawns, Delhi

Humayun's tomb is known as the first example of the monumental scale that would characterize subsequent Mughal imperial architecture.

Humayun's tomb (Hindi: हुमायूँ का मक़बरा, Urdu: ہمایوں کا مقبرہ Humayun ka Maqbara) is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun. The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's wife Hamida Banu Begum in 1562 AD, and designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyath, a Persian architect. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, and is located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India

The tomb proper stands in the centre of a square garden, divided into four main parterres by causeways (charbagh), in the centre of which ran shallow water-channels. The high rubble built enclosure is entered through two lofty double-storeyed gateways on the west and south. A baradari (pavilion) occupies the centre of the eastern wall and a hammam (bath chamber) in the centre of northern wall.

The square red sandstone double-storeyed structure of the mausoleum with chamfered corners rises from a 7-m. high square terrace, raised over a series of cells, which are accessible through, arches on each side. The grave proper in the centre of this cell-complex is reached by a passage on the south. The octagonal central chamber contains the cenotaph, and the diagonal sides lead to corner-chambers which house the graves of other members of the royal family. Externally each side of the tomb, its elevations decorated by marble borders and panels, is dominated by three arched alcoves, the central one being the highest. Over the roof pillared kiosks are disposed around the high emphatic double dome in the centre. The central octagonal chamber contains the cenotaph, encompassed by octagonal chambers at the diagonals and arched lobbies on the sides. Their openings are closed with perforated screens. Each side is dominated by three arches, the central one being the highest. This plan is repeated on the second storey too. The roof surmounted by a double dome (42.5m) of marble has pillared kiosks (chhatris) placed around it.

The mausoleum is a synthesis of Persian architecture and Indian traditions-the former exemplified by the arched alcoves, corridors and the high double dome, and the latter by the kiosks, which give it a pyramidal outline from distance. Although Sikandar Lodi's tomb was the first garden-tomb to be built in India, it is Humayun's tomb which set up a new vogue, the crowning achievement of which is the Taj at Agra. There is also a somewhat common human impetus behind these two edifices-one erected by a devoted wife for her husband and the other by an equally or more devoted husband for his wife.