The Ambassador:The Official Car of India.

Ambassador Car

The maker of the iconic Ambassador has halted the production of the car that was long the choice of The Indian Officialdom,citing weak demand and the lack of funds,casting doubt on the Future of a vehicle that has looked essentially the same for more than five decades.
Hindustan Motors Ltd said in a statement that it has stopped the production at the Uttarpara plant , near Kolkata,until further notice.

Modelled after the British Morris Oxford, the Ambassador was the first car to be made in India and was once a status symbol, but began losing the dominance after the arrival of low priced Maruti 800 hatchback.

Some Industry watchers say that it is difficult for the "the Grand Old Lady" of the Indian Car Market to comeback.

World's Best Taxi:
Despite its dwindling sales it was named the world's best taxi the BBC show Top Gear,last year.

A new Ambassador in Kolkata starts at Rs. 5,15,000.The company sold about 2200 cars at the end of the March 2014.

Swami Vivekananda:The Icon of India

The 150th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda which falls in the year 2013-14,provides us to pay homage and express gratitude to one of the most illustrious sons of India.

Swami was the great patriot,thinker,poet,leader,lover of Humanity and awaken er of souls.
He played the important role in the cultural Renaissance of Bengal and the Other parts of India.His speeches and writings were the source of inspiration for many political leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi,J.Nehru,Subhash Chandra Bose etc.
All of them expressed indebtedness to the Swami's ideas.
Swami Vivekananda was the amongst the first Spiritual leader of India in Modern times to speak for the masses.He tried to create national awareness about the plight of the poor India.

Swami Vivekananda.

"I see in my mind's eye the future-perfect India rising out of this chaos and the strife,glorious and the invincible , with Vedanta brain the Islamic Body"

                                                    -- Swami Vivekananda

"Let no political significance be attached falsely to any of my Writings.I do not believe in politics,God and Truth are the only Politics in the World"
                                                  --Swami Vivekananda

Swamiji was clear that in order to uplift the masses , it was necessary to spread both secular and spiritual education amongst them.

"He was the Architect of Resurgent India"
                                                         -- Dr.Karan Singh,Rajya Sabha MP.

Vivekananda Rock Memorial,Kanyakumari

The Dwarkadheesh Temple:The Temple of West India.

The Dwarkadeesh Temple at night.

The Dwarkadheesh Temple is situated at the western most place of India in Gujarat near Okha Port.
It is ancient temple dedicated to Lord Krishna.It is said that the Dwarka nagri is immersed in the Arabian Sea.

The Temple is Ancient Architectural Example.

The Giant Shiva near Dwarka,Gujarat.

The Nageshwar Temple

I visited Dwarka in early 2013,which is nearly 600 km from Ahmedabad.
Many tourists daily visit this ancient temple from many parts of Gujarat such as Porbander,Rajkot and Jamnagar.
About Krishna Bhakti
In 1965, the Krishna-bhakti movement had spread outside India when its founder, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, (who was instructed by his guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) traveled from his homeland in West Bengal to New York City. A year later in 1966, after gaining many followers, he was able to form the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. The purpose of this movement was to write about Krishna in English and to share the Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy with people in the Western world by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (an incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna according to the Bhavishya Purana). In an effort to gain attention, followers chanted the names of God in public locations. This chanting was known as hari-nama sankirtana and helped spread the teaching. Additionally, the practice of distributing prasadam or “sanctified food” worked as a catalyst in the dissemination of his works. In the Hare Krishna movement, Prasad was a vegetarian dish that would be first offered to Krishna. The food’s proximity to Krishna added a “spiritual effect,” and was seen to “counteract material contamination affecting the soul.” Sharing this sanctified food with the public, in turn, enabled the movement to gain new recruits and further spread these teachings.

The Ganges:The River Of India.

The Ganga , India's holiest river,became part of the conversation when prime minister - designate Narendra Modi contested the General Election from the seat of

Varanasi,the holy city of India.
He vowed to clean up the Ganges,a river who has got the sacred status in India.It is now one of the most polluted rivers in the World.
A look at some facts related to it.

THE GANGA.
Flows through 11 states in India.

It is ranked among the top five most polluted rivers in the world.
It has high level of faecal coliform and chemical pollutants including arsenic and lead.

LENGTH:2510 km

A sadhu Praying in the river

A dead Body in the River.

$1 billion loan given by World Bank to clean up the Ganges in 2011.

10,000 dead bodies thrown into the river each year.

1 Billion litres of untreated sewage is estimated to flow in the river daily.

The Ganges.

Kumbh Mela:The Sacred Bath

It is billed as the largest gathering of humans.All united by a common cause-washing away lifetime of sins by taking a plunge into the confluence of the three rivers,the Ganga,the Yamuna,the Sarawati.,in Allahabad.
Previous year , more than 100 million devotees took a holy dip across the 55 day Maha Kumbh Mela,a Hindu Festival that occurs after every 12 years.

Sadhus 

Akharas at Kumbh Mela.

Chennai:The Door to South India.

From a strip of a land on which British built there trading ambitions, Chennai or Madras has grown into a sprawling metropolis.It has a very rich background.

But now Chennai is not Madras,it has undergone various stages of development.It is big better city now.
It has a cosmopolitan atmosphere with liberal outlook.

Chennai Central Station.

Here you can see the versatility of food,whether Italian,Mexican,or Korean,also refers to the large number of the expats who live in the city.The more significant are the South Koreans,numbering over 3000.Around 200 Korean companies have plants in Chennai ,including the biggies like Hyundai,Samsung and LG.

There are countless engineering institutions such as IIT-Madras,Anna University.
There is nothing new Chennai has been the land employment and education as well.
The first Technical Institute outside Europe was established in Chennai.

But the city has changed,Globalisation has hit Chennai Strange ways..........

People of Chennai

Chennai is like a magnanimous foster parent but to her own children,she is Bloody cruel..
The people of North Chennai are the real sons of the Mother Chennai.

The Other Taj Mahal.

The 'Taj's' Verandah.

Did you know that there is another Taj Mahal built by another Shah Jahan...........

If you mention Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan,but suggest a city other than Agra, could you be accused of making monumental blunder? Not if you are in Bhopal.The Madhya Pradesh capital has its own Taj Mahal that was built by Shah Jahan , 11th ruler of Bhopal,begum of erstwhile princely state of Bhopal, in the Late 19th Century.

Its a typical Indo-Saraccenic building,with few closed spaces,and cool temperatures.This palace has 120 rooms, a sheesh mahal and an elaborate fountain structure called "savan bhadon"that simulated the effect of rain.

This Taj Mahal was built as a part of monumental complex such as Benazir Palace.Commissioned in 1871,its constuction spanned over 13 years.

The Building Named Taj Mahal,in Bhopal