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Holy Towns and Temples

Articles about visit to various temples and pilgrim places in India, besides temples you will also find posts about ancient Churches, mosques, and other places of worship of various faiths and religions.

desi goes for Varanasi Sunrise Boat Ride

Feb 202016

Varanasi Sunrise Boat Ride While most of us are busy debating traveler vs. tourist, I am caught in a dilemma of checking the night life or the early morning activities of a city irrespective of being a tourist or traveler. Taking the debate further focused there are people who click sunsets and then there are people who click sunrises. It is an altogether different thing that you cannot tell the difference between the two if you look at the picture. Unless you know the city very well and are aware of its monuments and where the sun sets. [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: boat ride, Ganga, Pilgrims, Varanasi 28 Responses »

Virasat-e-Khalsa

Jan 032016

A Museum of Sikh History: Virasat-e-Khalsa, Anandpur Sahib Looks can be deceiving, is an old saying and my first reaction on looking at Virasat-e-Khalsa complex was, that it does not look anything like a museum of Sikh culture and history. Only once you enter and reach the top-level after checking all the exhibits that you get a panoramic view of the complex and surroundings, by now you are already in awe of the exhibits and a short tour of the youngest and most reformist faith born in India. You will be forgiven to think initially that the design [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Punjab Tagged with: #tcbg_trips, Guru Gobind Singh, Guru Nanak Dev, Gurudwara, Sikhism, Virasat-e-Khalsa 17 Responses »

Remembering Paris in Varanasi

Dec 042015

Eiffel Tower Replica in Varanasi to pray for peace and Paris Travel keeps on surprising me, sometimes pleasantly sometime emotionally. I was in Varanasi last week to click pictures of Dev Diwali festival, a celebration to pay respect to river goddess Ganga and a few other Hindu beliefs. As I mentioned in earlier post Dev Diwali festival is the original festival that is now also celebrated in Thailand as Loi Krathong Festival which finds its roots in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. As I walked from Assi Ghat towards Sant Ravidas Ghat where Ganga Mahotsav is celebrated, I saw [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: Dev Diwali, Earthen Lamp, Ghats, night photographs, Varanasi 8 Responses »

Bansphatak Flower Market Varanasi

Nov 302015

Colors of Varanasi : Bansphatak Flower Market If there is one city that truly echoes a mini India minus the attempts to scale the walls of modernity clinging to the roots that go deep in the fertile alluvial Indo-gangetic planes then it is Varanasi aka Benaras aka Kashi. As good old Samuel Langhorne Clemens said – “Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together”. Well who am I to disagree with Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who has spent some good time in Varanasi and is [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Travel Pictures Tagged with: Bazaars of India, Flower Market, Flowers, Shiva, Varanasi 5 Responses »

Bathukamma Festival of Flowers Telangana by Chandrasekhar Singh

Oct 202015

Celebrating Bathukamma A Festival of Flowers in Telangana If you are not from Telangana the 29th state of India, chances are you have never heard about Bathukamma. So a bit of introduction and information about Bathukamma, the festival of flowers of Telangana is not out of order. Bathukamma is a festival with deep roots in agrarian traditions and worshipping Mother Goddess in the Telangana region. Just like the colorful festival of Bonalu dedicated to Mother Goddess, Bathukamma is also dedicated to Mother Goddess, but while Bonalu is for thanking the mother to save the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: Bathukamma, Bonalu, Festivals of India, Flowers, save our lakes 9 Responses »

Travel Tuesday Picture: Nihang Soldiers

Sep 012015

The Nihang Warriors : Torchbearers of a glorious Tradition In today’s Travel Tuesday picture I bring to you Nihang Sikh Soldiers / Sadhu from the land of golden fields -Punjab. If you are not aware of the Sikh history, then you may wonder why I am mentioning the Nihang as both Soldier and Sadhu. Well during the middle ages, the Nihangs were the brave soldiers in the Sikh Army first raised by Guru Hargobind jee In later years the Nihang Soldiers played very important role in various battles, more so when the enemy was in larger numbers. No wonder Guru Gobind Singh Jee said Chirian [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Punjab Tagged with: Horses, nihang, Rural India, sarson, travel Tuesday 8 Responses »

Travel Tuesday: Hanuman and Priest

Aug 252015

Hanuman & Priest So we return to Travel Tuesday picture after a long time. The image was clicked at Sitaram Bagh Temple in Hyderabad when I visited the same on the 180th anniversary of the temple. The temple is dedicated to Lord Ram and was actually built by Marwari trading family from Rajasthan, who still are trustees of the Sitaram Bagh Temple. I have totally missed all the craze around Bajrangi Bhaijan the super hit Salman Khan Movie but brwosing through some pictures when I came across this picture of Hanuman ji and a priest, I could not [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: Hanuman, Hindu Gods, travel Tuesday 4 Responses »

What To Shop In Ajmer Sharif Rajasthan

May 202015

A desi Guide on What to buy in Ajmer Sharif Rajasthan No desi Trip is complete without some shopping, even if I don’t buy too many things, I just love to have a look in shops to find out what my desi brothers and sisters ( or may be more of sisters) are buying. Our visit Ajmer Sharif Dargah was no exception from a shopping point of view and as always I learnt a few things on this trip to Ajmer while shopping in Ajmer Sharif also. Now Ajmer Sharif is a major pilgrimage center visited by followers of Hazrat Khwaja [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Rajputana Tagged with: Ajmer, Dargah, Flowers, Pilgrims, shopping, sufism 8 Responses »

Visit to Ajmer Sharif Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti (R.A)

Mar 092015

Seeking blessings of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti (R.A) at Ajmer Sharif Dargah We have an old saying in India that you cannot plan a visit to a holy place, you need to be called. I have always wanted to visit the Dargah of founder of Chisti order of Sufism in India Hazrat Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer, but even after many visits to Rang Rangeelo Rajasthan was never fortunate enough to visit his Dargah and seek blessings. But finally I was I was summoned to Ajmer Sharif Dargah to seek blessings at Dargah Sharif of Gharib Nawaz [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Rajputana Tagged with: Ajmer, Dargah, Shatabdi Express, sufism 16 Responses »

85 Feet Tall Shiva Idol in Bijapur Karnataka

Feb 162015

Second Largest Shiva Idol is 85 feet tall and in Bijapur Karnataka Small town India never fails to amaze me. While the big cities are busy building theme parks, malls and multiplexes the mofussil India has its own way to keep the locals busy. Now Bijapur in Karnataka even with all its historical treasures from the erstwhile Adil Shahi Sultanate is not your typical touristy town. Once we were done with the mandatory ruins and tombs like Ibrahim Rauza and Gol Gumbaz etc. we asked our driver if there is anything else to visit, so he said there is [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: Bijapur, Hindu Gods, Mythology, Shiva temple 13 Responses »

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