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History of Luknow Rulers of Awadh Crafts – Culture-Cuisine EDUCATION Crafts Culture & Cuisine of Lucknow Lucknow, the golden city of the east’ retains an old world charm that fascinates one and all. Regarded as one of the finest cities of India, Lucknow emanates a culture that combines emotional warmth, a high degree of sophistication, [...]

History of Luknow Rulers of Awadh Crafts – Culture-Cuisine EDUCATION Rulers of Awadh Saadat Khan – Burhan-ul-mulk (1720-1739) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-mulk, the founder of Awadh dynasty hailed from a noble Saiyid family of Nishapur in Khurasan. Earlier name Mir Muhammad Amin, he entered the mughal court as a small ‘Amil’, however managed to obtain a [...]

History of Luknow Rulers of Awadh Crafts – Culture-Cuisine EDUCATION —————– Lucknow Lucknow is the capital city of Uttar Pradesh and it has always been a multicultural city. Courtly manners, beautiful gardens, poetry, music, and fine cuisine patronized by the Persian-loving Shia Nawabs of the city are well known amongst Indians and students of South [...]

Ladakh Ladakh Places Leh – Capital of Ladakh Leh, the capital of Ladakh is situated at a height of 3505 meters and is towards the eastern parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The region is watered by the Zanskar River, which flows into the Indus River just below. Spilling out of a side valley that tapers [...]

Ladakh Ladakh Places Leh – Capital of Ladakh Ladakh Places Ladakh is a land of high passes on the borderland of India & Tibet. Ladakh is also known as ‘The Land of the Mystic Lamas’, ‘The Broken Moon land’, or ‘The Last Shangri-La’. It is also known as ‘Little Tibet’ because of the cultural & [...]

Ladakh Ladakh Places Leh – Capital of Ladakh Ladakh ( Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ ) – a word which means “land of high passes”, is a region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir of Northern India sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south. It is one [...]

Trip tour of Kushinagar Kushinagar history About Kushinagar Lumbini This place is 86 Km away from Kushinagar. Situated across the border in Nepal, Lumbini is the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Buses play till the Sonauli border (60km.) from where the remaining 26 km. has to be covered by Nepalese mode of road transport. Srawasti This [...]

Trip tour of Kushinagar Kushinagar history About Kushinagar KUSHINAGAR BEFORE BUDDHA Long ago, Ananda, there was a king, by name MahaSudarsana, a king of kings, a righteous man who ruled in righteousness. This Kushinagar, ‘Ananda, was the royal city of king MahaSudarsana, under the name of Kusavati, and on the east and on the west [...]

Trip tour of Kushinagar Kushinagar history About Kushinagar LOCATION &  IMPORTANCE  : Grooming the pastoral landscape, the small hamlet of Kushinagar, 53 km in west of  city Gorakhpur, is revered as the site of  Buddha’s Mahaparinirvana. On his birth he stepped seven steps in every direction and declared it as his last birth.It was known [...]

Haridwar Haridwar, the holy city lies at the foot of the Shivalik range of the Himalayas Legend goes that when lord Shiva sent Ganga to quench the thirst of the people, she extricated herself from the matted locks of Lord Shiva and descended to the plains at Haridwar. From here, the Ganga proceeds eastwards and [...]