Allô Chatrath

  This is a child friendly height for a wash basin...And a lot more could be done about cleanliness in our public toilets.

                                                                   Maria Callas in 1958 I was keen to watch the series 'Maria' on Netflix....Based on the amazing Maria Callas and lead role by Angelina Jolie...what could possibly go wrong?....Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.... Well, let me start by the Trailer, I thought.  I must confess that I do not know much of the genre of music that Maria Callas is famous for........And then the bigger confession- I couldn't handle even the trailer, what to talk of watching the whole series... One should admit when one is licked....

  I am lucky to have visited the San Agustin National Park in Colombia. The largest complex of megalithic monuments of the ancient Americas is comprised of a group of archaeological sites scattered over a wide area in the upper Magdalena river valley in southwestern Colombia, known as the "archeological zone of San Agustin" (Maps I and 2). Included by Unesco since 1995 in the World Heritage List, San Agustín monumental statuary is witness to the creativity and imagination of a pre-hispanic culture that flowered in the difficult and varied natural environment of the Northern Andes. The monuments -monolithic sculptures, earth mounds and burial corridors- reflect a stable socio-political organization and a unique world view. The first written descriptions of the monuments were made in the late seventeenth century by chronicler Friar Juan de Santa Gertrudis, and since 1913 the region has been intensely studied by archaeologists interested in better understanding the monumen...

                                                  Chief Little Crow - Photo source: Wikipedia "To ensure the Dakota (tribe) were totally driven from Minnesota, a bounty was created, awarding money for every Dakota scalp turned in. Little Crow, who had led the first raids, was killed and his scalp collected for bounty. His skull was kept as a memento until 1971. The last Dakota executions took place in 1865." (Source: University of Minnesota, USA website: https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/us-dakota-war-1862)

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 I was charmed by this display of  patterns of colourful tiles outside a tile factory near Belur in Karnataka, India