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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.

Guess The Famous Temple In India – Quizz for Skywatch

Apr 122013

Can You Guess The Famous Temple in Picture Hi Everybody, I thought of asking a small quiz with this photo today. You need to guess the name of this famous temple in India that has been photographed here. It may be difficult for people not living in India, but for most travelers in India it should be easy based on some of the clues I am giving below. All of you are welcome to use Google for search. Do read the complete post to know about the gift the right answer can get you. First let me narrow down [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: birds, Birdwatching, Skywatch Friday, Temple 19 Responses »

Making Rangoli Designs in India

Apr 102013

Rangoli Making From Wiki: Rangoli, also known as kolam, is a folk design art from India. Rangoli are decorative designs made on living room and courtyard floors during Hindu festivals typically consisting of bright colors. They are meant to be sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu deities.The ancient symbols have been passed down through the ages, from each generation to the next, keeping both the art form and the tradition alive. The patterns are typically created with materials including colored rice, dry flour, (colored) sand or even flower petals. Similar practices are followed in different Indian states: in Tamil [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: Colors, Pochampally, Pochampally village, pondicherry, Rangoli 12 Responses »

The Superhero of Pochampally

Mar 072013

The Superhero Of Pochampally Some time back I was in Bhoodan Pochampally Village, near Hyderabad. the main purpose of the visit was to meet and click pictures of some weavers who make the beautiful Pochampally sareers. While we were moving around the village which is a photographer’s delight and almost every corner offers some photo opportunity. I saw this guy in this wonderful superhero T Shirt as if announcing that he is going to solve the problems of this world. What do you say? Do wee need a superhero for this world? May be it is a sign of the times when one [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: Pochampally Sarees, Pochampally village 2 Responses »

Significance of Red color in India

Feb 272013

What is the significance of Red color in India ? Red is a very auspicious color in Indian culture. From the red saree that the bride wears on her wedding day to the red bangles, red sindoor that married Hindu women put in the parting of hair red is everywhere. A wedding invitation card is not considered complete unless it’s colored red on the corners. In some parts of India housewives will make rangoli of white color in front of their doors but on festivals like Sakranthi they will make a special rangoli with Red as the central [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: ancient hindu temple, Bonalu, Colors, Festivals of India, Ganesha, Mythology 18 Responses »

Pictures of Kumbh Mela Allahabad by Vijay Jata

Feb 232013

Naga Sadhus & other pictures of Kumbh Mela Allahabad There are a lot of things that happen only in India and it is just not possible to find a parallel of them anywhere in world. Kumbh Mela is one such relegious event. I sorely missed going to the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad due to various reasons. I badly wanted to go, when our photography group HWS or Hyderabad Weekend Shoot were planning to go there. But as they say in India you do not go to a holy place, the holy place calls you. So when the photography group returned [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India, Photography Tagged with: computer baba, Festivals, Festivals of India, Ganges, Kumbh Mela, Naga Sadhu, pictures 4 Responses »

Skywatch Friday

Feb 222013

This is my first entry for Skywatch Friday, this picture was clicked when I visited the Visa God of Chilkur Balaji in Hyderabad. To check more entries for Skywatch Friday please click here If you have liked reading the post please feel free to share it with your friends on Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter and Google+ . You can subscribe to the email updates to receive new posts automatically in your inbox. I promise that I will not sell, rent, or donate your email to anybody. —

Posted by desi Traveler Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: birds, Chilkur, Skywatch Friday 24 Responses »

Buddhist Museum On Nagarjunakonda Island

Feb 202013

A visit to Buddhist Museum On Nagarjunakonda Island in Nagarjuna Sagar As written in an earlier post we took the boat to Nagarjunakonda island to visit the Buddhist museum on Nagarjunakonda island. We arrived suitably shaken and stirred on the island and were a witness to the great Indian rush to get out of the boat once again. Immediately after the boat docking platform there is a steep ascent to rise to the hill, remember Konda means hill in Telugu and Nagarjunakonda means the hill of Sage Nagarjuna, which is also the name of Telugu superstar Nagarjuna who seems to be getting younger with every [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: Buddhism, Nagarjuna Sagar, Nagarjunakonda, Travel Story 12 Responses »

Visa God of Chilkur Balaji Temple Hyderabad

Feb 042013

Praying to the Visa God of Chilkur Balaji Temple Hyderabad Quick question: God made man or Man made God? Well if you do not know the answer you need to visit the Visa God of Chilkur Balaji Temple in Chilkur Village on the outskirts of Hyderabad. You see the ancient gods in all the hunter-gatherer, and later agrarian societies were responsible for some act of nature, like in India we have Indra for rains, Agni for fire, similarly, in the pre-Christian mythology of Europe you have Bubona for cattle, Nympha for watering the crops etc. Or the gods and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: ancient hindu temple, Balaji Temple, Chilkur, Festivals of India, Mythology, Visa God 22 Responses »

Rural Tourism Complex Bhoodan Pochampally Village

Feb 012013

Visit to Bhoodan Pochampally Village- Part II In my last post on Pochampally village, the home of world-famous Pochampally Sarees and other dress material, I focused on the beautiful rangolis that people have made outside their homes and shops for celebrating Sankranthi. In this post, we will visit the Rural Tourism Complex, of Bhoodan Pochampally Village, Nalgonda District, in Telangana. It is about 60 KM from Hitech city in Hyderabad and if you start early you can reach Bhoodan Pochampally in about 1.5 hours. As Pochampally was the first village where a rich landlord donated his surplus land to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Holy Towns and Temples, Incredible India Tagged with: Bhoodan movement, Pochampally, Pochampally Sarees, Pochampally village, village life, Vinoba Bhave 17 Responses »

The Baobab Tree and Ranganath Temple Nanakramguda Village Hyderabad

Jan 262013

Old Baobab Tree & Rangnath Temple Nanakramguda Hyderabad Before Chandra Babu Naidu said “ Let there be Investments in IT”, Nanakramguda was a sleepy village with its only claim to fame being 400-year-old Sri Ranganatha Swamy temple. Today it is difficult to find from the main road as it is surrounded by glass faced IT parks. But my reason for visiting Nanankramguda village was not to visit the temple, though I did click some pictures from outside of the temple. No, I am not an atheist; I will tell you why I did not enter the temple later in the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Posted by Prasad Np Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Forts and Palaces, Holy Towns and Temples Tagged with: ancient hindu temple, Baobab, Baobab Tree, Bidar, Festivals of India, Mythology, Ranganath Swamy, Vishnu 34 Responses »

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