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  1. Shilparamam, the `village’ in Hyderabad

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    / January 29, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Shilparamam bills itself as the arts, crafts and cultural village of Hyderabad. It indeed is a fascinating place, with a stunning display of crafts. The stalls are often manned by artisans themselves. It is a wonderful experience to chat with them, see their passion for their craft.  The village like setting...

  2. Charminar at dusk

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    / January 28, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Charminar is the emerald of Hyderabad city and has become an inseparable part of the history of Hyderabad. Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty in 1591 AD, built this edifice. This splendid piece of architecture has is a square alike structure with 4...

  3. The Arrival of the Dragon

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    / January 23, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By Piyush Ranjan Rout This year the Chinese have more reason to celebrate their New Year. The Chinese community uses the lunar calendar unlike other communities for observing their New Year. The Chinese calendar consists of both Gregorian and lunar-solar calendar system, they observes their New Year sometime between late...

  5. Snorkeling at 62

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    / January 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    By Parthasarathy Aisi gehraiyaan, Aisi tanhaiyaan, Aur main sirf main, Apne honay pe mujhko yaqeen aa gaya  (Such depth, Such loneliness, And me only me, I now believe I exist) These are the last lines of Javed Akhtar’s beautiful poem about the sea from Zindagi na milegi dobara. What appealed...

  6. Nanded beckons

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    / December 21, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Two Hundred and ninety kilometer from Hyderabad on the banks of river Godavari is the Takhat Sachkhand Shri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib Gurudwara of Nanded. This is one of the five High seats of Authority of the Sikhs. It was here where Shri GuruGobind Singhji breathed his last. Maharaja Ranjit Singhji,...

  7. Visa to Vaikuntam

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    / December 17, 2011 / 4 Comments
    Visiting Divya Desams is a dream which many Vaishnavites who worship any form of Lord Vishnu nurture, thanks to the huge awareness created through television by Shri Velukkudi Krishnan, a corporate honcho-turned-preacher. So much so that lakhs of Tamil speaking households and housewives start their day only after watching his...

  8. An early morning on the Vembanad Lake

    Posted by dennis marcus mathew
    / December 16, 2011 / 2 Comments

  9. Reliving the Quixote Fantasy !

    Posted by Praveen Maloo
    / December 14, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Sancho: It’s a windmill. Don Quixote: A giant. Canst thou not see the four great arms whirling at his back? Sancho: A giant? Don Quixote:Exactly. The above conversation is sure to amuse you if you remember the ingenious character of Don Quixote. Although it has been quite some time since...

  10. The Story of Parlakhemundi

    Posted by Venkat Tata
    / November 10, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Venkat Tata   My uncle S N Tata, once told me the fascinating story of Parlakhemundi college (one of the oldest in the ‘Turpu’ region) – now in Orissa across the Mahindra Gedda (as a riverlet in known locally) from Patapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It was a premier seat of learning in that...

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