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Udayagiri & Khandagiri Jain Caves (Bhubaneshwar - Odisha)
To begin with, Buddhist caves with exactly same name Udayagiri is also in Odisha, but with a solid 90km distance between them, which is why specifying this title as Jain caves! I’ll write about the...
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Buddhist Circuit (Jajpur and Puri - Odisha)
Lalitagiri, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and DhauliTo begin with, Jain caves with exactly same name Udayagiri is also in Odisha, but with a solid 90km distance between them, which is why specifying this title...
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Raghurajpur Pattachitra & Wall Art (Puri - Odisha)
The tribal wall arts of Orissa are too many – obviously because there are too many tribes in Orissa and each of them have their own handicraft, music, dance etc! On my trip to Orissa, I stopped over at...
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Lesser known Bhubaneswar Temples - Part 1 (Odisha)
In this list I’m missing the very famous Lingaraja Temple and also I’m skipping the post on the very famous temple in Puri of Jagannath. My first stop in Bhubaneswar was Ananta Vasudev Temple. However...
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Lesser known Bhubaneswar Temples - Part II (Odisha)
From Vaital Deul, my next stop was Parasurameswara Temple, which is perhaps the earliest surviving large temple of the 7th - 8th C CE. As in Taleswara, here again the lintel of the entrance has only 8...
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Lesser known Bhubaneswar Temples - Part III (Odisha)
As the sun was almost setting, my next stop was Mukteswara Temple which is considered the ‘Gem of Orissan Architecture’… This was built around 970 CE built with an early Somavasi style. The Vimana...
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Qutb Minar Complex (New Delhi)
The first time I went to New Delhi was almost a decade ago and it was almost a weeklong trip with my parents when we saw various Delhi museums, Gandhi Smriti etc on one day, monuments in Delhi on...
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Heritage Transport Museum (Gurgaon - Haryana)
Some of the unusual museums we’ve been to include Sewing Machine Museum& Fan Museum in London, Erotic Museum in Amsterdam, and Dolls Museum in New Delhi etc. Recently added to that list is Heritage...
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Bylakuppe Namdroling Monastery (Mysuru - Karnataka)
From Magnolia Resort, Coorg, I was on my way back to Mysuru Jn to catch my train. I was told, a small diversion on the way could take me to Bylakuppe Monastery and I wanted to go there. So I set off at...
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Londinium (London - England)
Londinium – Roman & Saxon LondonDid you know London was once under the Roman Empire? It was then called the Londinium, created in 43 CE, from which the present name London was derived. After the...
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Banqueting House (London - England)
As I said long back, the various heritage buildings in England come either under English Heritage or Historic Royal Palaces or National Trust! Historic Royal Palaces are the ones that are under the...
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Greenwich Painted Hall & Chapel (Greater London - England)
My visit to Greenwich in London, happened in 3 sections: As soon as I moved to London I went to the Royal Observatory and Park; then again I went to visit the Cutty Sark and Maritime Museum; towards...
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Chiswick House & Gardens (Greater London - England)
In the lines of Kew Gardens& Eltham Palace is this another property called Chiswick House & Gardens. The house is actually a tiny little portion of the humongous expanse of land filled with...
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Marble Hill House (Greater London - England)
On the banks of River Thames, very close to Richmond is this building called Marble Hill House. It was the home of Henrietta Howard, an intellectual woman with a rather interesting life. She lost both...
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Ham House & Garden (London - England)
Close to Richmond Park is this place called Ham House. Very similar to Eltham Palace this is also a palatial villa of the Dukes and Duchesses of the era bygone!This was built in 1610 by William Murray...
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Barbican Conservatory (London - England)
Kew Garden is the biggest conservatory in London. The 2nd biggest is Barbican Conservatory. That's nothing unusual. What's makes it unusual is that its indoor and a few floors above the ground!!! When...
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Top 10 places to see & things to do in Gujarat
I've been to Gujarat thrice so far; and I'm not a person who'd prefer to go to a same place multiple times coz I strongly believe that a lifetime isn't enough to see just India, let alone the entire...
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Royal Museums of Art & History (Brussels - Belgium)
Porte de Hal, Musical Instruments Museum & Cinquantenaire MuseumBrussels is filled with several museums and the first batch I went were the Royal Museums of Art & History. There are 4 museum...
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Fan Museum (Greater London - England)
Remember my post on the Sewing Machine Museum? Similar to that, another quirky museum here is the fan museum. A factor that totally amused me here in London was the absence of ceiling or table fans....
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Ambedkar House (London - England)
Ambedkar is the Father of Indian Constitution. He is Independent India's first Law Minister. In an era when the caste system was so severe in India which resulted in social inequality & injustice,...
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