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Blogs That I Follow.

  • http://navallanga.blogspot.com
  • News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
  • Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
  • News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
  • Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
  • Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.

Friday, December 05, 2008

An Empire In Ruins.



I had been to see the Hampi ruins and the nearby Badami caves, Aihole complex of ruins recently.It was a marvellous trip and sight.The red sandstone hills around the Vijayanagar empire ruins just speak out its glory silently.

The trip was for three days and the first day was spent at Hampi.The Hoysala architecture shows its early evolution through the stones.Oh! The boulders!!!! Just beautiful.Next day it was the Badami caves and Aihole complex.Here the architecture changes as it represents Chalukya architecture.The caves are just beautiful to say the least.Each one speaks of a story.I was wondering what would have happened in those times and what marvellous leisure and life style must have prompted the creation of such wonderful structures.To say the least, I was proud to be an Indian with so much history to be proud of.

Next day the remaining part of Kishkinda and the Anjanadri hills where Hanuman was supposed to have been born was visited.605 steps and I could do it and come back by 35 minutes.I have just posted the chariot picture at Hampi and more will follow as I write here.

Jayamala.
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