| This great fort
on the banks of Jamuna, built by Shahjahan as the citadel of the seventh
Delhi founded by him, then known as Shahjahanabad and now old Delhi,
is a significant link between the past and the present, for it is
from here that the prime minister of India addresses the people on
the Independence Day, which is August 15th. The largest
of Old Delhi's monuments is Lal Quila or Red Fort whose thick red
sandstone walls, bulging with turrets and bastions, have withstood
the vagaries of time and nature.
The Lal Quila
rises above a wide dry moat in the northeast corner of the original
city of Shahjahanabad. Its walls extend from two kilometers and
vary in height from 18 metres on the river side to 33 metres on
the city side.
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