Junagadh Fort in Bikaner is the best-maintained fort of India - full of various royal palaces that make you walk through the reigns of various kings of the Bikaner dynasty that began with Rao Bika some 600 years ago.

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Ratnagiri – the name always reminds me of the Alfonso mangoes or Hapus Aam as locals call it. Variety of mangoes I have always associated with their high prices and their demand outside India. All the while we were in the town and around, at the end of July, we kept looking for mango orchards. […]

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Aga Khan Palace is a beautiful Palace located in a quaint neighborhood of Yerwada in Pune. History of Aga Khan Palace It was built in 1892 after a famine to generate employment for the region’s people. So, the roots of this palace are in charity & noble thoughts. It took 5 years and 1000 workers […]

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Cooch Behar – I first heard about this place when I was reading a story on Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur. She came from this place. This was pre-google days, and I assumed it to be a part of modern-day Bihar. Well, I was not too off the mark, Cooch Behar belongs to West Bengal […]

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If there is one fort in India that I clearly remember from my history books, it is the Chittorgarh Fort. Also called Chittaurgarh Fort. So many important characters of Indian history have lived here. That I met them in history books when it came to kings like Maharana Pratap and Rana Sangha. I met them […]

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Chitrashala – literally means the school of Art or precisely the School of Painting. Now I have been reading about miniature paintings. That primarily comes from two traditions – Mughal and Rajput including the ones from the Hills of Himachal. Of the various sub-schools of Rajput miniature paintings, the Bundi school of Art is a […]

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Rampur Bushahr is the last capital of the Bushahr or Bashahr dynasty that ruled the Shimla & Kinnaur regions for a long time. If you go by legends, they trace their ancestry to Pradyumna – the Son of Lord Krishna. You do see a lot of Vishnu temples in the Bushahr region. So the belief […]

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Laxmi Vilas Palace is the first thing that you are told to see when you visit Vadodara. We saw its precincts many times while driving across the city. Its imposing arched gates stand next to a busy road. The palace compound is so huge that you have to access different sites like the Fateh Singh […]

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This huge wooden palace, Padmanabhapuram Palace is, in fact, the biggest wooden structure in Asia. It is an erstwhile palace of the kings of Travancore who ruled from here between 1552 – 1790 CE. That includes the rule of its famous king Marthanda Varma of dynasty. Today it technically falls in the state of Tamil […]

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Falaknuma Palace is the jewel in the crown of Hyderabad. Its shining glory, its very own signature luxury symbol is a heritage property dating back to the 19th CE. I visited the palace twice, once to have dinner there on our special day and once again to take the heritage tour. There is nothing Indian […]

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