Anuradha Goyal: Ashish Kaul is the author of a beautiful book on ‘Didda-the Warrior Queen of Kashmir.’ I’ve been reading about Kashmir, and I realized that Didda ruled Kashmir at my favorite time in India. The time when probably India was at its best. The invasions were yet to start. Our architecture, our military, and […]

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Omkareshwar is a river island in the Narmada about 4 km by 2 km in size. It is also a hill that is surrounded by the waters of the Narmada on all sides. If you take an aerial view of the island, it forms the sign of OM – one of the many reasons why […]

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India is called Bharat or Bharatvarsha. It is named after King Bharat, but not many people would be able to name his birthplace, leave alone locate it. I happened to visit Kanvashram – the heritage of Rishi Kanva on the banks of River Malini in Uttarakhand. That is when a lot of stories from the […]

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All roads in Dwarka lead to the Dwarkadhish Temple. The towering temple stands almost on the western tip of India where the River Gomti meets the Arabian Sea. Given the vast barren plains that surround the town of Dwarka, you can see the temples from miles away. My hotel was a good 6 km from […]

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I first came to know of Panch Kroshi Yatra when I was visiting Varanasi about 4 years back. I saw a unique map on the walls of Bharat Kala Bhavan at Banaras Hindu University. Just a year before that I had done the 84 Kos Yatra of Braj in the Mathura-Vrindavan area. I was curious […]

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