Lucknow was not always the city of nawabs, as we know it today. In its present form it is a very young city. While very little of authentic historical evidence is available about history of Lucknow during the reign of its Hindu rulers, it is traditionally believed...
Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula agreed to allow a British resident to set base in his domain and the British residency was established when the capital of Awadh shifted from Faizabad to Lucknow in 1775. Construction of Lucknow Residency which began in 1775 was completed...
The photo above, taken in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya on 12 January 2013, fortuitously captures the only four Northern White Rhinos alive in the world at the time. Two of these were males and two females. The very last members of this critically endangered...
The couple had just entered Amer Fort riding an elephant. I noticed that the mahout was taking photographs of the couple with a mobile phone (tourists’ or his own – I don’t know). My focus was the mahout taking a photograph of his customers. However,...
Taj Mahal is closed to public on Fridays and the best place, I learnt from internet, was to go see it from Mahtab Bagh across the Yamuna river. The bonus is that you can see and photograph it in its regal isolation as the usual throng of people on Taj is absent....
