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                                                     A road side 'wilderness' in Sofia, Bulgaria.......

 

                   It would have been quite an effort catching all these celebrities in one photo frame!

                                                                                                      (Photo source: Healthy-bites)

 

  Devi Ambika, 10th century AD, discovered in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India, on display in the State Museum Bhopal, India.  In Hinduism, Ambika is generally the name of Adi Shakti or Shakti or Durga, consort of SadaShiva -The Cosmic Male .

                  Do try to decipher what is etched in Devanagri on left side bottom of the slab.

  This is the second time that ICC has named her the lady player of the year, the first time being in 2018.

                                                               Jhaveri Temple, Khajuraho The Khajuraho Group of Monuments are a group of Hindu and Jain temples in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, India, about 175 kilometres southeast of Jhansi. They are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temples are famous for their nagara-style architectural symbolism and their erotic sculptures. These temples at were built during the Chandella dynasty, between 950 and 1050AD. Only about 20 temples remain; they fall into three distinct groups and belong to two different religions – Hinduism and Jainism. They strike a perfect balance between architecture and sculpture. I visited these temples for the first time in 1967 and thereafter a few times subsequently. I have taken many photos there. I plan to share 100 of those photos with my reader friends. I would be posting one photo everyday at random. Khajuraho is connected by air, by train as well as by road with other parts of India. Best ti

I used to travel quite a bit in pre-Covid times. While travelling I would take lots and lots of photos- hoping to remember what each photo was about and why and where I had taken it. However in reality I find it difficult to remember exact details of some of those thousands of photos, as has happened in the present case.  In 2018 I took a wonderful conducted tour organised by Penguin Travels. The big temptation was that it covered 8 countries in a span of two weeks.  One such place that we covered during this trip was Sarajevo. More about Sarajevo in another post as this one is about photos of which I don't remember the background. While walking in the streets of this city I found these four posters, which I promptly photographed.  Now four years later I just cant remember why I took these photos! Anyway, I love these nice colourful posters....  P.S........ You may like to see my earlier blog about this trip: https://allochatrath.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-balkan-kaleidiscope-coverin

Vietnam is a fascinating country- a country which comprehensively defeated the mighty USA, China, and France - the countries who had dared to invade it. I had a great desire to visit this brave little country and finally made it in 2019. Besides Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Danang and some other cities, I made a memorable trip to My Son which is a UNESCO Heritage site. And this brings me to the title of this write-up.          Myson is an area where the Hindu Kingdom of Champa prospered from 4th to 14th century AD.                                  One of the bomb craters left unfilled for the Americans to see and repent. Centuries later, in 1969, USA bombarded this area suspecting Vietcong to be holding on there. One may not ask what business USA had to bombard a small country thousands of miles away. But one would surely be entitled to ask why did USA destroy Hindu places of worship in the bargain? Remember how recently the entire world came down heavily, and so very rightly, on Taliban i

 

 

 

                                                                                Ratha Jatra 2017                                                                           Ratha Jatra 2017                                                 Konark in Odisha (India) is one place you must visit before you die.