When it’s not crowded with tourists, Ram Ghat is the best place to be in Chitrakoot. The best time is around 5.30 pm as you can join the Mandakini River aarti (prayer). Compared to the grandeur of Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi this one is much simpler, but
During the Mughal reign successive emperors built forts afresh or modified existing forts/similar structures to suit their needs. The sprawling Agra Fort is said to have been built by modifying a fort called Badalgarh, constructed by a Rajput chieftain. Read…
Red sandstone – that is what one normally associates with Agra Fort. A visit to the monument, however, breaks that notion. While the Jehangiri Mahal, Akbari Mahal, Diwan-E-Khas, Diwan-E-Aam all hold a special place in history, what really made me…
I was on my way to Kanpur from Lucknow and we stopped to buy watermelon. Featured here is a muskmelon vendor selling his wares on a bridge over the Ganges. The background with hutments lining the banks and buffaloes grazing…
The Ganges, revered by Hindus as the holiest river, is in a constant state of abuse with industrial pollutants, carcasses, mortal remains, plastic and other garbage causing its condition to deteriorate eachday. The government and the World Bank”s efforts…
The Lucknow Zoo has a pretty good aviary. These pelicans seemed to have some interesting tidbits of information to share with each other.
Considering that over 70 pct of the earth’s surface is covered with water, we would be pretty restricted in where we could go if we didn’t have this little invention called a boat. Boatmen was last modified:…