Mango Festival The International Mango Festival has been held annually in Delhi in July for the last 12 years. New varieties of the fruit are introduced to visitors at this festival. Those who love the fruit and wish to taste a large variety of them...
Orchid Sanctuary There are around 500 known species of orchids in India. Over 450 of these can be seen in the Orchid Sanctuary in Sikkim.
Asian lion in natural habitat One can still see the Asian lion in its natural habitat the National Park in Sasan Gir, Gujarat, despite its numbers dwindling drastically over the years.
Green Oscar for hornbill conservator The Whitley Award, an international nature conservation prize worth Rs 30 lakhs, was conferred on India’s Aparajita Datta by Princess Anne at an award ceremony held at the Royal Geographical Society in May 2013. Datta was honoured for her work...
Hornbill Festival The Hornbill Festival is held in Nagaland in the first week of December every year. It is called the “Hornbill” festival because the Hornbill is an important and sacred symbol for the local tribes, but interestingly, it is not about the bird species...
Valley of Flowers National Park Located in the western Himalayan region, the Valley of Flowers covers an expanse of 87.5 km. The original valley of flowers in India, which is situated in the Bhyundar Valley at an elevation of 3,658 meters above sea level, is...
Maharashtra’s “valley of flowers” Kaas, a plateau 300 km from Mumbai and 25 km from Satara, is referred to as Maharashtra’s” valley of flowers” Towards the end of the monsoon, the meadows are covered with expanses of wildflowers in a profusion of colours like pink,...
The world’s biggest school The 2013 Guinness Book of Records recognises City Montessori School, Lucknow, as the biggest school in the world. Started in 1959 by Dr. Jagdish Gandhi and his wife, Bharati, with only five students, the school today has over 47,000 students on...
New premises for Swaminarayan temple in London The Swaminarayan temple at Golers Green in Wilesden, UK was converted into a temple from a church in 1981. As years went by, the temple was found to be too small to accommodate the growing number of visitors....
Holy cow! The Bill of Rights is a list of the most important privileges of the citizens of a country and its purpose is to protect these rights from infringement. The cow is a revered animal in India and has its own Bill of Rights....
