A forlorn but lovely Lodhi. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Snuggled in the heart of south Delhi’s Deer Park, it is one of the Capital’s most beautiful and perhaps least-known Lodhi-era ruins. The 16th century Bagh-I-Alam Ka Gumbad exists in the world like a small joy. Its mood is vastly different from other gloomy edifices of its time that are littered across the city. None of their bleak lonesomeness taints its character. The building is, in fact, full of life. Grass grows out of its battered stone slabs. Squirrels clamber over the arched niches. Pigeons perch at the battlements. Occasionally, the bird chatter grows so loud that you feel that there must be hundreds of them inside the monument, and that