Lodi Garden is a well-known and popular garden in New Delhi with its numerous walking tracks amongst lush greenery all around. While New Delhi’s elite – politicians, bureaucrats and power-brokers take their morning walks here and network for mutual benefit, the masses...
If there is one building I would rate as the most magnificent in India, after the Taj Mahal that is, it is the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata. And it comes as no surprise that it is made of the same Makrana marble as the Taj Mahal. It transpires (and here I quote...
In the 18th century, some Jews from Basra and Baghdad migrated to Surat, an important trading centre on the Western coast of India. By the end of the eighteenth century, about hundred Jews from Aleppo, Baghdad, and Basra had set up their trading businesses at Surat....
Dalhousie Square in Calcutta (now Kolkata), named after Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India, was established as the commercial and political capital of the British India. All major British buildings, those built by the government and those built by private...
I have been watching Qutb Minar ever since I was a small kid. We used to live in a double storeyed apartment complex. Ours was on the first floor and we could see the Minar from our terrace very clearly, though it was about 3.75 kms away as the crow flies (measured...
