Happy 250th Birthday To The Sandwitch

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MAY 25 , 2012           02.25 A.M. Last week I came across an innocuous news item in the Mumbai edition of Times Of India that our snack – cum – food a.k.a. Sandwich completed 250 years of its existence .I never knew that Sandwich was nowhere in the scene before 1762 [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 10 : Dabra

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MAY 04 , 2012           01.55 A.M. After Orchha visit on February 29 , 2012 , I returned to Dabra in the evening . Next day on March 01 , 2012 , it was party on the occasion of House – [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 9 : Orchha

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 29 , 2012           01.30 A.M. After finishing sight – seeing of Datia on February 27th and Gwalior on February 28th , I still had one day left . So I decided to visit Orchha also . I had visited it once . Many years ago I went to Jhansi [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 8 : Gwalior [ C ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 27 , 2012           09.30 P.M. Gwalior travelogue is really getting longer . This is the third one .  But I clicked lots of photos and apart from that , Jai Vilas Palace and Gwalior fort are really historic and have many anecdotes worth telling , so I can not [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 8 : Gwalior [ B ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 26 , 2012           03.45 P.M. After completing my visit of Jai Vilas Palace , I headed for Gwalior Fort . This fort can be seen from the palace ground itself . One of the biggest forts of India , Gwalior fort was described by Mughal Emperor Babur as ” [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 8 : Gwalior [ A ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 24 , 2012           06.30 P.M. As I have stated in my travel diary of Datia , I landed at Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia Airport , Gwalior on February 27 , 2012 evening . I immediately proceeded to Datia by car and after worshipping at Peetambara Peeth , returned to [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 7 : Datia

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           APRIL 18 , 2012           03.15 P.M. I flew to Gwalior on February 27th , 2012 by afternoon Air India flight . I have lost count of my visits to Dabra and Gwalior . It is place of my in – laws  , so I have to visit it again and [...]

Pongal the Food ; Not the Festival

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 28 , 2012           01.40 A.M. I always knew that Pongal is very important festival of Tamil Nadu . During my Allahabad days and then during my stay in Deoria , my native place , I came to know more about Pongal , the festival . This festival is akin [...]

1oo Years of Sliced Bread

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 04 , 2012           00.15 A.M. Just read a very interesting news item in today’s ” Mumbai Mirror ” and was tempted to write a blog . Sliced bread completes 100 years in 2012 . It has become a part of our lives and no one thinks that it was [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 6 : Kanchipuram

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA          DECEMBER 05 , 2011           01.00 P.M. On the 30th morning , my last day in Chennai , I started for my journey to Kanchipuram . It is 71 km. from Chennai . I had read in the Holy scriptures that 7 [...]