Tag: India
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Kochi has attracted various sailors in the past the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Along with the rulers of erstwhile Kerala These foreigners also left their prints in the state. Muziris, which was a mythical ancient city now under the water was the centre of this trading port, also, a hub where even juice…
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Temples have begun to commercial, or well they always were, was the debate as we walked into the beautiful Vellore Golden Temple built to worship the Goddess Lakshmi, the consort of Lord Venkateswara and the pseudo-Mom of Lord Ganesha who was given to her by his mother Goddess Parvati. This temple houses both Lord Ganesha…
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Inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi last year, the Baps Hindu Mandir off Abu Dhabi is the first temple of that scale in the middle-east, and the the number of Hindus working in the region, it is but a valued addition! The temple is similar to all its peers across the world,…
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All through school and college, travelling through traverses of India rail travel proved one of the only ways to capture the miles across the country. The other way mostly was by road driving through the southern states mostly, with my brother and I plonked in the back seat. Rail travel always meant more people, crazy…
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About 5000 years ago, Lord Vishnu one of the Trimurti, the Preserver of the worlds came into the world in his 8th avatar since the beginning of the world as we know it as Krishna. Born in Mathura, raised in Gokul and Vrindavan, finally as the king of Dwaraka, he was an influential figure of…
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On a trail of popular and influential people of the past, I picked Irving Stone’s book, Lust for Life to read from the local library. The book documents the life of a man who painted the Sunflowers, Starry night, and others fetching a handsome sum of money long after his death. At one point he…
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Le Corbusier was a French architect who mustered up a storm in the built world with his fancy broad stroke forms and unstoppable zest for building. Challenging the norms and taking a huge liking to the pouring of concrete he not just thought out of the box, but threw out the box with his buildings…
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Reading is therapy and I indulged in a whole lot of it last night! This book seemed like wonderful at the start, infact it was a book club read, and the author so sweet, so softspoken coming down a lineage of refugees who came in after a rather painful partition, the family of the famous…
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The home of Tashkent the foreboder of the silk route, the key of the Islamic Golden age, Uzbekistan, once a soviet country is ridden with gorgeous architecture, deep-rooted culture and a bounty of the earth, yes am talking about the fruits of the land quite literally. Most of the Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims, they comprise…
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In fashion there are fads, in architecture there are trends, in life there is both, fashion and architecture and ofcourse fads and trends. While one cannot really pay much attention to fads or trends, one cannot ignore fashion or architecture. It’s been a while since Van de Rohe proclaimed that, “Less is More”, an adage…
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Bursts of colour, impressive graphics and applied intelligence are striking elements in Architect Sandeep Khosla’s body of work that ranges between beautiful homes, snazzy clubs and institutions that are steeped in the highest realms of architectural values. As I headed down to attend his talk, I was very impressed by the alacrity of the design…
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Yes for all those Bill Bryson lovers, I did borrow his title and remixed it with an ‘of’ instead of the original ‘from’! However it does work better with my post, because this humble post is about an island that I lived in for a short portion of my highly impressionable adult life. And that…
Vedasri Siddamsetty 