Where Was This Photo Taken? (2)

Been few years since I last went to Chittorgarh. But would it be the Delhi Gate?

Auchri Gate?

Sorry, no, but you're getting there.



Awright, aarosh!

I'll buy that, because that's what wikimapia says it is in the big rectangle: I take it to be a variant transliteration.

If you can find a way to get to the little triangle, though, you see Ochari Gate, which is given elsewhere as Ochhari Gate. As this Gate is apparently at the head of the old road to the (self-proclaimed) pretty little Eden of Ochhari some kilometers south, I suspect Ochhari is the better spelling.

For those who haven't got there yet, here are some maps to show that Ochhari Gate is smack it the middle of the length of Fort Road, the route that I believe most people take through Chittorgarh to get to Chittorgarh Fort. If you've been to Chittorgarh Fort, you've probably passed within twenty meters of this gate.







Here also is a photo of the gate with its signage intact. Since we can't read the script, we can't tell whether it gives the gate's name or advertises a sale of baked goods to support the local school (do people do that in India?).

It says 'Orchari Gate'. 'Nagar Palika Chittorgarh' (Municipal Corporation)

Thanks for the translation. Good thing I blanked the signage out. (There's also some sort of notice behind the autorickshaw that looks like it might announce a 5000 rupee fine for parking there.)

I was surprised to be unable to come up with an image of it on line. It kind of goes with the little Hanuman temple in Jaipur with the tree growing through it. Vaibhav said on that puzzle that we'd gone far off the beaten path, but in fact we were only two or three blocks off the main drag and another block or two from one of the principal city gates. In this puzzle we were right on the main drag! That's why we try to budget at least half our time for the area back in behind the monuments – India is so full of amazing things that you can turn up little gems like this any old where (and you don't have to pay firang admission fees).

Congratulations again. Figured the guy who taught us about wikimapia might be the first one there, if only you all could collectively sort out the town.

PS from distaff - nice new avatar, aarosh.

agree far better than previous

As long as no one else seems intent on larruping in here to post a new puzzle, we'll try again. This should be markedly easier.

Signing off for nine hours. Others are welcome to post another puzzle.

Shakha pola on their wrists, almost like the one's i remember mom wearing...guessing kolkatta or its nearby vicinities?

Figured the costumes or jewelry might be a clue. Right state, but how nearby is nearby?

It might help everyone to know that this is just a step away:



(Well, actually four or five steps, but who's counting?)

Does 1841 ring a bell?

Look at 3:10 in this song.

Aha! I'm not the only one who can be cryptic to the point of opacity.

All I can get at a quick search for 1841 is a building in the wrong place and wrong religion, though that doesn't preclude the puzzle being somehow associated with 1841.

Then, after much excitement (i.e., threats of frying pans), I got our web administratrix to update Flash and repair permissions so we could safely look at the YouTube link, which we dutifully did, checking out 3:10 and seeing a very pretty building. But "she yawned, yawned a mighty roar" because it was not the right building. And if that was Brishti Bridge just before it, and the building is the one I think it might be close by Brishti Bridge, then your nearby is way too nearby to get the job done.

Shortform: No, but thanks for the entertainment. (And distaff thanks you for forcing her to update Flash Player, though why she isn't after you with a frypan I don't know.)

hmmm, I thought it was Princep Ghat. One of the near by ghats?

Is this the one?

Nice photo. Birishti would be thrilled.

Get outta Kolkata.

This was meant to be an easy puzzle, with a subject that's pretty well represented on the net.

But the clues so far have been pretty stingy, and only those who've been right there are likely to have recognized it. Which, apparently, a lotta people haven't been and haven't done.

So here's a more generous clue that should make the solution a dead cert: