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Named after the hugely powerful and affable queen of England and off Canada’s Pacific Coast and slighting over seven and a half square miles in area is lodged the Garden City of Victoria also fondly referred to as the City of the Newly weds and Nearly Deads! Thats mostly because the island county floating off…
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Sold in 1867 for a measly sum by the Russian Czar, Alaska today is largest state of the United States of America and boasts of spectacular glaciers, northern lights, flamed flora and delightful fauna. Home to the Tlingits, the Glacier Bay National Park, icy spectacles, scenic glaciers and chilly climes Alaska in all its pristine…
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Streaks of gold say oh lo behold to flamed forests inspiring sonnets as they burst upon landscapes of adorn the colours they don are a melange of tone red brown and an orange tamed by yellow foliage a nature production show setting the forest aglow setting stage around rustling leaves surround whispering joys aloud leaves…
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America is synonymous for MacDonalds, Levis, Starbucks, Coke, Chips, Costco, Walmart, Corn and the hugely popular westernized lifestyle. The so to speak western influence seems to have crept into the every niche of the world, including even the impenetrable Great wall of China. Ironically, it’s quite interesting to note what happens in the west of the great…
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The country that measures its happiness as a figure of the Gross National Happiness had me intrigued for over a decade now. And when we decided to drive up from dreamy Shillong over several national highways and nearly 200 kilometres, my Gross Personal Happiness did certainly triple if only just a little! After a drive…
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Perched in the Khasi hills, Shillong is every bit of a jewel of a hill-station, with dreamy locales and floating clouds, the Scotland of the east, one of the Seven Sisters and only just a couple hundred kilometres from the wettest place on earth! It is literally where the clouds finally give way to intense rain. And…
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At the annual IIID Design awards the jury summarised how truly inseparable originality and creativity actually are. Brief yet succinent the comments read, “Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way!”. While am happy to share…
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Architecture is a visual media and when it embraces other forms of visual art like painting, sculpture it essentially comes alive! Legendary Indian architect Charles Correa does just that with his notable projects across the country. Whether its sculpture at the Gandhi Ashram or sciography as art at the Hotel Cidade de Goa his buildings are beautifully…
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Defining architects as the custodians of the built environment renowned artist Laxma Goud bellowed praise on the power and responsibility of the fraternity. While a painter, sculptor or and artist in general is never questioned upon his creation, with the end product being one focal vision, designers are usually inundated by the wants of a client. While art is…
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There are dreams abound where hopes surround Fervent wishes are made for grand plans laid In a jiffy of sorts the world comes tumbling down Hardly any pieces remain of the demon that’s slain For all the tearful years bright rainbows cure fears With no aim no ambition but for a steady premonition The tomes…
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Nimbly wedging within the city’s famed natural rock formation, the Trident Hotel in Hyderabad is much of an architectural delight. The architect’s at C&T Bengaluru made sure that the heritage rock falling within the precincts of the site was kept intact as a strategic design move right from the very beginning. The…
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Or so we would like to believe. This aint a feminist post, blasting away at how superior women are, but more like a blast away on how indispensable both men and women are! Though I do subscribe to the hackneyed notion that women make better care-givers and are natural nurturers, life, of this age demands a lot more from…
Vedasri Siddamsetty 