Bhagat Singh’s ancestral home to be restored Legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s ancestral home, school, and village will be restored under an $80 million project by the Pakistan government. He was born on September 28, 1907, in Bangay village in the Jaranwalla Tehsil of Faisalabad...
Measuring the earth’s diameter Brahmagupta (597-668 AD), the mathematician and astrologer from Rajasthan, who was head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain during his time, is recognised by history for a variety of reasons. For one, he authored the ‘Karana Khandakhadyaka’ – a book on...
Largest mural painting in Asia A painting of Veerabhadra (an incarnation of Shiva), measuring 23×13 feet on the ceiling of the Veerabhadreshwara temple in Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh, is said to be one of the largest mural paintings in Asia. The mural has been painted using...
Travancore Maharaja’s bed The Padmanabhapuram Palace displays a large bed gifted by the Portuguese to one of the Travancore maharajas. This bed is made of 64 different types of locally grown wood.
Napolean’s bed Quila House, Patna, contains a very unique piece of furniture: a bed that once belonged to Napolean! In addition, there is also a private collection of Chinese paintings. If it is hard for visitors to believe Napolean’s bed is in Bihar, it was...
Babia, the vegetarian crocodile. Visitors to the ancient sacred Anandapadmanabha Temple at Kumbla, Kerala always get to hear a strange story once they are done with a round of the temple, the legend of Babia, a 76-year-old male crocodile, who lives in the lake...
Sarpakatu, a fort that a serpent cannot climb. ‘Sarpakatu’ – which means even a serpent cannot climb it-is a fort that has, within its boundaries, a temple devoted to Shri Padmanabhaswamy of Anandapadmanabha. It is located at Kumbla, 15 km from Kasargod and 40 km...
Food festival in the forest In the 1980s, Baripada, in Maharashtra’s Dhule district, had become a barren wasteland bereft of most of its forest cover. By the 1990s, the greenery had begun to reappear, owing to the efforts of determined locals. By September 1,...
Holi celebrated worldwide! Now foreigners need no longer flock to cities like Jaipur, Pushkar, Vrindavan, Agra, Delhi and so on for Holi as they are having their very own Holi-themed parties in several countries across the world, such as United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, the...
Anandamide, the bliss molecule In 1996, when researchers had discovered the ‘blier molecule’ in raw chocolate, it was given the anandamide, after the Sanskrit word for bliss Canada’s. Anandamide plays a role in the regulation of feeding behaviour and the neural generation of motivation and...
