India, March 28 -- In such a crowded and noisy megapolis, a citizen naturally aspires for solitude and quietude. Lodhi Garden is just such a place to satisfy the yearning. But there's a problem. Lodhi Garden teems with too many loners looking for aloneness. Not to speak of the mainstream populace- romantic couples, picnicking families, tourists, and heritage hunters-who raid the same flowery fields with other yearnings to satiate.

Fret not, you loner. There is a place in Lodhi Garden that remains relatively empty, although it harbours a monument of considerable significance. It is the tomb of Sikander Lodhi, the second ruler of Delhi Sultanate's Lodhi dynasty (1451-1526).

The octagonal tomb is as stately as the tombs elsewhere in the Ga...