Back in the 1960s, when Le Corbusier, the famous French architect had designed and built his bold architectural master pieces for Chandigarh, another man of humble origin was creating his dream world secretly.
A road inspector in the Chandigarh...
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A small state in South India, Kerala beyond doubt is a perfect holidaying destination whatever your stereotype about the rest of India may be! The exotic beaches, green carpets of the paddy fields, coconut and rubber plantations, the Nilgiris, the...
We all know about the architectural marvels in India and one such is the Ramanatha Swamy Temple, Rameswaram in Southern India. The corridor in this temple is the longest in India.
Situated in the Gulf of Munnar at the very tip of Indian...
Himachal has numerous temples, each with some fair or festival connected to it, with legends dating back to countless centuries. The Bajnath temple of Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh dedicated to lord Shiva is distinct from the one in...
India, where culture echoes, tradition speaks, beauty enthralls and diversity delights is one of the popular tourist hubs of the world. Trailing the beauties of major tourist attractions such as Italy, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand, India has...
The Taj Mahal was closed to tourists and Indian city officials of Agra imposed a curfew following riots that left one person dead and 50 injured. The violence started after a lorry crushed to death four Muslim men participating in a religious...
Indeed, the luxury and architecture of Udaivilas hotel in Udaipur is difficult to match with any other hotel in the whole world. The hotel luxuries with medieval grandeur and regalia have created a history in the country as it was awarded as world's...
The Indian tigers are pretty popular throughout the world. So, there's a lot of visitors every year to see them.
Recently, the Conservation Corporation of Africa is organizing eco-tours in India. These eco-tours have one object in mind: to get the...
The biggest rose show in the country, earlier known as Festival of Gardens gets underway. The Zakir Rose garden, is the venue of the Rose festival and has beautiful displays of different varieties of roses. This year over 500 varieties of roses are...
Through this post, I hope to introduce readers to the immaculate beauty of Solang Valley that occludes 'Anjani Mahadev'. However, before moving further I wish to uncover fundamentals of this place.
• 'Anjani Mahadev'- this name is derived from two...
The current boost in Indian tourism that has broken all previous records in terms of overseas arrivals and foreign exchange is not satisfactory for Indian tourism industry. It is learnt that still India is way behind; even places like Macao registered...
The unceasing violence in Assam has posed gravest threat for the state tourism. And if the ongoing clash between militant outfit ULFA and Indian army continues then it will sallow the tourism of sister states. Countries like US, Australia and UK has...
Lack of proper tourist infrastructure and connectivity to major Buddhist sites is robbing India of nearly one billion dollars (over Rs 4,500 crore) earning and a tourist swell of 400 percent as per comprehensive FICCI-ICRA study.
What remedial...
And what to they hope to advertise Bollywood and Buddhism. With China to be biggest outbound market by 2020 with 100 million Chinese traveling out every year everybody wants a piece of the cake.
Though the site is available in French, German,...
India lives in the villages and if I am not wrong then Indian villages well represent the true Indian culture. Recognizing this identity, tourism ministry has traced 36 hamlets across 20 states all round the country, in order to unearth rural culture of...
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