Category: Architectural
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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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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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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…
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A Heritage Walk through The Walled City of Udaipur
Think Rajasthan and immediately pops into your head a picture of undulating waves of sand shimmering golden in the sun and a row of women all but hidden in their bright twirling lehengas and odhanis, walking away with pots of water on their head as thick silver anklets catch the sun on a hot windy…
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7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2017
It is that time of the year again. When I look back at my year and see what is the one thing that I set out to do at the beginning of the year and actually did. So, here I am proudly proclaiming that I did visit 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India in…
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Great Living Chola Temples – Vol II: Gangaikonda Cholapuram
Second on UNESCO’s list of The Great Living Chola Temples, is the Brihadeeswara Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram. In a tiny village lost in time, is this 982 year old temple. This Brihadeeswara Temple too is built on the same lines as the Big Temple in Thanjavur, complete with a massive stone sculpture of Nandi facing…