Asia’s cleanest village , Mawlynnong in East Khasi hills, Meghalaya , India

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Review : Lemon Tree Hotel, Aurangabad , India.

In 2013 Deember , I had a conference in Aurangabad. The trip was arranged by my office but I chose the place to stay , the lemon tree hotel. It is one thing I cannot compromise , so I insisted them to book this hotel for me. Lemon tree groups are chain of hotels  based...

Victoria Memorial Hall , Kolkata

Victoria Memorial hall is a monument and museum built in the British occupied India .And though by all means I hate Lord Curzon being responsible for the fatal partitioning of Bengal, he proposed the construction of this grand building. The building was designed by architect William Emerson, the president of Royal Institute of British Architects, who also happened to...

“Dilwale” Delhi.. The Broad -hearted Delhi.

Delhi has been a witness to the changing history of India.Being an old thriving city through centuries, it's mention dates back to the time of Pandava's  , in Magabharata, the great epic of India. The then Delhi was known as Indraprastha. Delhi  became the capital of Mamluk  dynasty, the first dynasty of Muslim sultans to rule...

Indian Museum of Archaeology..

Indian Museum is the largest and the oldest Museum in the Indian subcontinent and also in the Asia-Pacific region of the world.Founded in 1814 at the cradle of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (at the present building of the Asiatic Society, 1 Park Street, Kolkata),  it has paved the way for 400 current museums in...

Visit to the Blue mountain : Ooty and Coonoor

I went to visit my friend in Bangalore and told him to plan a good trip nearby. Being a student of  space physics, he told he wanna go to Coonoor as it is the home of first Indian space traveler Rakesh Sharma. I was not so much into the 'space thing'  but I love mountains,...

Mysore ..The city of Palaces

Mysore or Mahishur is known as the "city of palace" . In fact Mysore palace is one of the most visited monuments in India even beating Qutub Minar in Delhi in 2006. The word Mysore is derived from the word "mahishur" or "Mahishasurana Ooru", which means the town of Mahishasura in Kannada,the local language, by...

Ellora cave : 5th Century Revisited.

Far from the madding crowd, in the village of Velur , stand the Elapura  or Ellora caves ,locally known as ‘Verul Leni’ Outstanding sculptures of the 34 caves of Elapura representing  one of the largest rock-hewn monastic-temple complexes in the entire world will render you speechless.It also represents the  largest single monolithic excavation in the world, the...