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Met a sweet guy called Akshay, who told me that the new Innova has got some neat stuff and sells for ~INR 18 lacs.
There is such a long story to this photo... I don't think there's enough space in Flickr's text box for it.
So, in a nutshell, this is summer of 1986. I've just graduated high school. The week after graduation is called "Senior Week" and all the seniors go to the Jersey shore and rent houses. And it's like one big party and you can let your imagination go if you want. I'll say this: alcohol was not involved, but severe sleep deprivation was, not to mention a really, really bad fast food lunch meal immediately after waking up, and ... oh ... getting my ear pierced at some boardwalk shop.
Let's leave it at that.
Palace of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
The enormous palace was built during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaucescu in Romania from 1983. This is the second largest administrative building of the Earth. (The Pentagon is a little bit larger.) The volume of the building is the third on the planet after the rocket assembly hangar of Cape Canaveral and the Quetzalcoatl pyramid. The total cost of the building is estimated to be more than 6 billion dollars (the Romanian GDP in 1993 was 17 billions). Many citizens worked on the palace free as "patriotic labor".
The palace is located in the geometrical center of Bucharest and it is surrounded by similar administrative buildings. To create the construction site, parts of the old town were demolished. A dozen churches, a cathedral and many 19th century buildings were destroyed and a new Stalinist style quarter was created. There were apartment buildings along the 3.5 km large Avenue of Victory of Socialism for those "more equal than the others".
Some halls of the palace are bigger than a football field. During the construction 1 million m3 of marble, 3500 tons of crystal and 3500 m2 of leather was used. The purpose of the palace was to create a place for the administrative institutions of the State and the Communist Party. The building was called People's House. Its architect was Anca Petrescu. During the construction in the country electricity, heat and food was rationed.
The palace is now called Palace of Parliament and houses the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, two museums, other parts of the building are used during conferences, etc. (The movie Amen of Costa Gavras was partially filmed here in 2002.)
U.S. Soldiers in the 125th Multi-Role Bridge Company, South Carolina Army National Guard, conduct an over-water transport of an M2 Bradley and M1 Abrams tracked vehicle during training at Clarks Hill Training Center in Plum Branch, South Carolina, Feb. 20, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard courtesy photo/ Released)