Category: Heritage
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Pancharamam Temples : One Ancient Shiva Lingam, Five Temples.
The Pancharamam Kshetras spread across Andhra Pradesh are essentially five temples built for just one Shiva Lingam. A popular pilgrimage circuit for the Hindus of Andhra Pradesh, this tour across temple towns (and, otherwise) takes you through Palakollu, Bhimavaram, Samarlakota, Draksharamam to the State Captial, Amaravathi. The Legend of Pancharam Kshetralu Once upon a time…
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In Photos: Terracotta Temple of Hyderabad
A quiet descends over you as you find your way – through the expansive grounds of the Dadabadi Jain Sevashram hemmed in with trees – towards the Terracotta Jain Temple in Hyderabad. Only a stones throw from the other, more popular Karwan Jain Temple in Gudimalkapur near Mehdipatnam, the Dadabadi Jain Temple is a lyrical…
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PUSHKAR ji with Raghu Rai
Mr. Raghu Rai needs no introduction. Five days of learning, Three days of shooting, & nine images barely passed muster. Where is your camera? You have to be ready. Always. Those were his first words to me as we met at a dhaba along the road to Pushkar. He had left early from his home…
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The Story of Pashmina
Once an heirloom piece to be passed on from one generation to the next, the Pashmina Shawl today, has donned a new avatar. As Indian designers are rediscovering this artisanal craft from the Himalayas and giving it a modern twist in terms of blending it with silks and giving them structure and silhouette by turning…
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Al Bastakiya: Down the winding walkways of Dubai’s Heritage
Before Dubai became the glitzy capital of the famously fashionable that it is today, it was once an arid land of Bedouins. A semi-nomadic people who traversed the desert with their herds of camel and goat, eternally in search of oases that would sustain their agriculture. Everything from the famed dates and coffee of Dubai…
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Ammapalli Temple: Tollywood’s Favourite Shoot Location!
Ammapalli Temple. Long Long ago, before Lord Rama met Hanuman during the course of events set out in the Ramayana…Well, thats the time that the few Kondanda Rama Temples that there are, hark back to. Five kilometres from the Shamshabad Bus Station is a quiet little village called Ammapalli. In this quite forgotten leafy corner…
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Artisan Villages of Andhra Pradesh: Sri Kalahasti
Legends surround Sri Kalahasti, the temple town near South India’s most popular pilgrimage centre, Tirupati. Home to the ancient Shiva temple, the Sri Kalahasteeswara Temple, this town has been the centre of many legends, stories and folk lore. But it isn’t as widely known that this town in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district also boasts of something that is…
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Alampur: South India’s City of Moksh
The temple town of Alampur in the Mahbubnagar district of Telangana is renowned for its Ashtadasa Shakti Peetham, the Jogulamba Temple. But there is more to this sleepy little town that is only a few hours from Hyderabad. It is believed to be the Western gateway to Srisailam, one of the important pilgrimage centres for…