Speaking Archaeologically™

                                             “ I struck a deal here…                    To walk back in time                 And breathe its air...” Diptarak Datta is a Research  Wing  Member at Speaking Archaeologically As the auto left us on the left side of the road, on a fresh, winter Sunday morning,  my friend and I were baffled and taken aback for a while, wondering, which way, the much read about Purana Qila, stood. The huge poster, directing the travelers towards the zoological park, was all the more distracting. Unknowingly, we crossed the road (silently blaming the auto-driver for having dropped us on the wrong side of the road), and started walking towards a red sandstone wall, which seemed to me to be the Purana Qila. However, we were soon stopped by closed gateways. Later, I read up that this was the much less visited Madrasa and mosque built by Maham Anageh,  around the mid sixteenth century. We had to again cross the road, only t