If there is heaven on Earth...it is this...it is this...Engraved in Persian....

THE RED FORT - DELHI

Made of Red Sandstone, Red Fort completed in 1648, once served as the Imperial Palace of Moghul Emperors. It was built by the Great Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, seat of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor, when he was declared Emperor of Hindustan during 1857 uprising against the British. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Leader of the exiled Azad Hind Government wished to hoist the flat of Free India from the Red Fort. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the First Prime Minister of India hoised the Flag on 15th August 1947 at the Red Fort. It proclaimed Free & Independent Nation. This flag replaced the British Union Jack which had flown over India for 200 years.

The two most famous buildings of the Red Fort are the Hall of Public Audience (Diwan-i-Am), where the grand mughal presided from a royal alcove which contained the Peacock Throne, and the smaller Hall of Private Audience (Diwan-i-Khas). The decorated white-marble walls of the latter, considered a masterpiece of Mughal architecture, are inscribed with a couplet in Persian that has been translated in English as: "If there is a heaven on earth, it is this—it is this." Other features in the Red Fort are the Painted Palace (Rang Mahal) and the Pearl Mosque (Moti Masjid).

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