THE TAJ AND BEYOND SAVOR THE QUIRKINESS OF AGRA, FATEHPUR SIKIRI ON A VISIT TO INDIAN LANDMARK.(Travel)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: October 3, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Story and photos by Evan Pondel Staff Writer

AGRA, India - Armed with wooden swords and balding tennis balls, the combatants prepare for an early-evening joust.

The lines are drawn and the sides are taken as a ball is hurled through the stillness of dusk, only to be intercepted by the stunning whap of a wicket.

Crickets do not chirp in India.

They are the chattering boys who come out of their cavernous dwellings every evening to...

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