What is it about? : This book is about the history of a region which does not get the same attention that it more than deserves; south India. Medieval Deccan had some of the most important and significant kingdoms to have existed in the history of India and Hinduism as well and yet it does not get the same attention the northern part of India and its history gets.
What is it about? : ‘White Mughals’ is about the love story of a British officer posted in Hyderabad, India with a local Hyderabadi noblewoman during the late 18th century.
On a bright Sunday morning, during my visit to India early this year, I took an auto to the Women’s college in Koti whose complex …
As I walked through the arched doorway leading into a corridor basking in the morning sunlight, I was transported back to into a different era …
As we walked into the huge hangar like building, the conical structures of a rocket exhaust greeted us. There were 5 of these. As our …
3 nights abroad the 2 most scenic trains in all of USA. That too in Coach. Meaning no sleeping on my back! How did that go and how was the scenery during the trip! Read on to find out!
This book is a sort of an introduction to the various architectural styles of buildings in Canada and the influences that created them. The book starts from the French settlers in the 1600s and ends in the modern times, touching in between the Atlantic provinces, the prairie towns, French influences, British influences and Canada’s own style as well.
Clinging to the side of the mountain with only bolted iron rings and a safety harness between me and the rocks below, I looked around at my surroundings. It was snowing mildly and now and then I had to wipe my glasses to clear the snow. The day was dark and gloomy. Far away I could see the blue waters of Howe sound and the surrounding mountains. The view was stunning.
This book is mainly about two explorers John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood. Together they made some of the most important discoveries of the 19th century and changed humankind’s understanding of human history.
