Bharat Mata Temple: The Bharat Mata temple at Varanasi is the only temple dedicated to Mother India. It is located in the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth campus. The Bharat Mata temple was built by Babu Shiv Prasad Gupt and inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936. The statute of Bharat Mata is built in marble and is a model of undivided India, depicting the mountains, plains and oceans. The most peculiar thing about the Bharat Mata Temple is that instead of[...]
Archive for January, 2010
Cruise liners are the hottest holiday vehicles till now. With improving technology and growing demands it is time for some more lavish hospitality. How about a flying hotel? In March 2009, Hotelicopter, pranked the web users with the Hotelicopter video (see below). It latter turned out that it was a promotion stunt for the Hotel Aggregation and booking site with the same name. People were just impressed with a four storied 5-star hotel gliding over cities or shuttling between two[...]
Kashmir is labeled the “Paradise on Earth” and Srinagar is the summer capital of this paradise. That should suffice as the description of the Srinagar but I would still add some more. Srinagar etymologically means the city (nagar) of wealth (sri). It has a long history of 2000 and more. It was an independent kingdom at the time of partition of Indian mainland. Since Hari Sing decided to join Indian Union following Pakistani incursion Jammu Kashmir has remained a state[...]
