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If there was a dream come true, it was visiting the Acropolis in Athens. Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture puts forth some recommendations for architects to study, but even while studying, the Temple of Athena in the Acropolis of Athens stands out spectacularly. Just like the Eiffel tower that follows one everywhere in Paris,…
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For a country that has in its count 6000 islands, Greece is more of the sea than the land. As the Greeks Simply dive into water from any island, Land, taking a swim in the salty water of the agency, they fried themselves on their bronze look baking in the glory of the sun. While…
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While ancient Greece was divided into several colonies or city states. It also meant that the city states were parent fighting with each other. These city states traded with each other for Essentials but also help together when faced with a foreign opponent. Yet in spite of their number of fights, they would all pause.…
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Beautiful bodies are vessels for beautiful minds and are where strong moral compasses dwell. So believed the ancient greeks, as a corollary good minds only live in good bodies, hence a lot of effort was made to maintain strong, healthy and beautiful bodies chiselled to perfection. If a person was beautiful externally, with ripped abdomen…
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Meteora is a rock formation in Northwestern Greece, that holds atop it, Eastern Orthodox monasteries. Kalambaka is a city at the foothills of these monasteries that makes access to the monasteries easier for the tourists, it has a dessert by its name that is a pudding of sorts with walnut cake and condensed milk! Yet…
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The Greek Gods are mythical legends, with epics and stories that display their grand values, a lot like the Indian Gods, yet unlike the Indian Gods, worship to the Greek Gods have been long lost to the advent of the Romans, then the Christians and then the Turks, now becoming a tale in the chaos…
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‘Where are the renders?’ is a very often heard statement in the world of interior design and architecture. My Lighting vendor to pop the question at me, very vehemently, in fact, he wouldn’t just let me go. He wanted me to tell him what it exactly looks like! What are lights like? How’s the feel…
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Over the last month or so, I have had the good fortune of visiting a lot of temples starting with the temple at Yadagirigutta in Telangana to the new Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Telangana to yesterday going to our family gods family Temple in Adavanahalli, a Shiva Temple. While all the temples were very beautiful,…
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Here’s a word on diversity. The more different your diet is, your workout is, your day is, your clothes are, your shoes are, may I add your friends are, the better off you are. This is fact not fiction. For the last couple of years I have been reading books on health, following influencers of…
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Last evening I got to see a rather delightful movie about a man called Srikanth, a blind man who takes the world by storm, who refuses to accept a business award in a special category instead claiming to work harder and come back and win eventually. That way he does not acknowledge what we would…
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I barely draft drawings these days, but when I do it is just the best thing ever. Heard of being in a flow state? Well doing a drawing on AutoCad or probably any computer-aided design software puts one in a major state of flow. Or perhaps it is about the act of design or the…
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Last week I heard the most interesting fact, that interested me beyond measure last week, a wellness junkie that I am and a keen believer of the Blue Zones first classified by Dan Buettner, it thrilled me beyond belief that Singapore, a tiny island-country in the Indian Ocean is the latest entrant to the blue…
Vedasri Siddamsetty 