Tripura is my home…the place close to my heart and soul has unique destinations to be explored. Yet very few people from outside world know about this place! I have travelled to various places within the country (India); when people ask me “where are you from?”, I say, “from Tripura” Read more…
Since childhood I’ve been a fan of historical facts! I remember my many friends saying that they don’t like history as they have to remember many dates, names of the kings, and the incidents occurred during that period. However, I felt myself in love with history. I wish we had Read more…
Location, How to reach, Best time to visit: Bhojpur – a small semi-urban town in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh is named after Paramara dynasty king Bhoj, an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva of early Eleventh century C.E. It is located at 32kms from Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh on Read more…
Madhya Pradesh holds innumerable mysteries within her. One among them is Bhimbetka – where evidence of human evolution lies…where you can witness artistic side of early humans from the Stone Age. How extraordinary they are! Paintings inside the caves survived 100,000 years. The themes, skills and the materials used for Read more…
Being a crazy history lover especially ancient history, I could not resist to visit Udaigiri Caves in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. We reached Sant Hirdaram Nagar Station (previously known as Bairagarh Station) from Ujjain by train (for exploring Vidisha Sanchi Station is better). We booked a hotel outside the city (Bhopal). Read more…
Thousands years old Ujjain holds many mysteries and tales. I went to Ujjain in the hope of finding traces about King Vikramaditya who is believed to have ruled this city in 1st century BC. I wanted to know more about Kalidas, one of the nine gems of King Vikramaditya who Read more…
First of all let me ask you a question. Have you ever really thought about visiting Ahmedabad? I always thought Ahmedabad is just another Indian city with crowd and chaos. My idea about Ahmedabad was limited to place related to M.K. Gandhi and Indian Institute of Management. I always thought Read more…
Fight for the independence often involves taking away lives, violence, loss of property. But in the beginning of Twentieth Century the whole world saw for the first time that fight for the rights can be done through non-violence also as an alternative to armed aggression. Success story of an Indian Read more…
Jyotirlinga is a devotional, auspicious and powerful representation of Lord Shiva. Jyoti means light and Lingam represents the beginingless and endless pillar symbolising the infinite nature of Lord Shiva. Among twelve Jyotirlingas Somnath is considered the first pilgrimage site. This temple is historically associated as in 11th Century AD Sultan Read more…
There is a saying “Kutch nahi dekha toh kuch nahi dekha” meaning if you haven’t seen Kutch you have seen nothing. All these years I have seen Hindi movie superstar Amitabh Bachchan walking on white desert whenever I saw Rann Utsav promo-ad on television. And everytime I dreamt of being Read more…