My Travels Through the Himalayas – I (Monuments of Simla – 2)
Monuments of Simla – 2 While the Viceregal Lodge was the power-centre from 1889, architectural constructions – both private and official had been built here from the early 19th century onwards. I have mentioned some of these in the first post in this series. Most of these buildings are renovated now, but they still exist. … Read more
My Travels Through The Himalayas – I – Monuments of Simla – 1
My Travels Through The Himalayas – I Monuments of Simla-1 Viceregal Lodge (Now the Indian Institute of Advanced Study) I said in the last post that the British Empire in India was ruled from the Viceregal Lodge from 1889 onwards. Built on the summit of the Observatory Hill, it’s an imposing building, with a housing capacity … Read more
My Travels through the Himalayas – I – Simla-1
My Travels Through the Himalayas – I Simla the Queen of the Mountains From this post onwards, I am beginning a series on my travels through the Himalayas, which I made during 2006-2008, when I was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla in Himachal. Apart from researching on my monograph as … Read more
World of Blogs – Some Interesting Facts…
World of Blogs – Some Interesting Facts I was doing a random search on Google and came up with some interesting statistics. If you type the following terms in Google, you’ll get their respective number of searches as – Hinduism blogs – 904,000 Islam blogs – 15, 700, 000 Christianity blogs – 5, 430, 000 … Read more
