It was just arrival of Summer in April of 2019 in Gujarat when I landed at Ahmadabad to see my brother. As such I also had plan to visit a few historical places in and around Ahmadabad. The visit of Ahmadabad city was my 4th day of 6 day tour. My Itinerary Gujarat was under […]
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Hill Of Water Bottles
A live example of how superstitions become idioms, baseless fear and how most of us start following it BLINDLY. In front of me is a small mountain of plastic water bottles, FULL OF WATER. I was at Rani Ki Vav (130 KM from Ahmadabad) in April. I had to go to Modhera which is 36 […]
Lothal- Our History Starts Here Part – 2
As per planned trip I came back from Dholavira at 7 PM to Ahmadabad at my brother’s house and next day we planned to visit Lothal with family by car. Lothal is just 75 KM from Ahmadabad. Road is good and wide. Just in 2 hours we reached Lothal. On way did not see any boards […]
Dholavira- Our History Starts Here Part-1
I am so much thrilled that I am standing at the place where History of India starts as before this it was anthropology, an unknown world, unknown people. It is important to note that our Archaeologist R.S. Bisht who was in charge of the excavation of Dholavira site has divided Indus valley civilization stages in […]
Rani Ki Vav -A World Heritage
It was quite sunny day of April. I got down from Gujarat state bus and caught an auto to reach museum of Patan in just one hour. The museum is very small and I think started recently. There were a few sculptures and paintings in the museum. The caretaker was courteous enough to start audio […]
Sun Temple, Modhera
This 1000 year old heritage temple is at a small town Modhera which is 25 KM from distt. Mahesana, Gujarat, India. River Pushpavati flows nearby which incidentally I did not notice while coming by three wheeler auto from Patan. This temple was built by Solanki king Bheemdev-I in 1022 AD. My Itinerary Gujarat is such […]