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This Khirni tree said to have been planted by Hazrat Makhdom Jahania Jahangast in 14th century in Chirag Dilli Dargah is part of 18 Trees which have been given #NaturalHeritage of Delhi status. #50TreesofDelhi #TreesOfDelhi #UrbanCommons #Nature #FiftyTrees
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I got it from a nursery and amazingly it didn’t take long to flower - about two months. You may also find it on Amazon
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I made a list of the trees I grew up with. One of them was simply called the poddo (meaning lotus). It was planted in our garden by my grandpa, and it towered above us, flowering at this time of the year, when he offered it to Goddess Kali. When we lost the tree, I couldn’t find its name… and I also couldn’t find it in Pradip’s Trees of Delhi. I told Pradip that, and he replied he couldn’t locate a specimen of the tree in Delhi while writing his book.
Many years later, I finally traced the scientific name of the tree. It was the Hibiscus mutabilis. I found a sapling and grew the plant.
Today, it has flowered, three floors from
the ground. The blossom is white today, tonight it will be pink, and tomorrow it will be red.. a heritage plant that changes like we do.
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My big achievement is growing the Hibiscus mutabilis, a tree I grew up with, in a pot.
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Both the mothers raised good human beings. That itself says all that needs to be said about the memoirs.
N Ram says its dignified. Thats nice review .
Though I plan to read many books on Legal luminaries this #Belonging book cover and N Rams review may compel me to include this in my reading list
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India's Most Beautiful Bathhouses
In the small town of Burhanpur in modern-day Madhya Pradesh stands a 400 year old hammam that I would argue is the prettiest in all of India.
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Ya Banda e Khuda ban ya banda-e-zamana,
Yeh Bandagi Khudai ,woh bandagi ghadai ,
Manzil se aage badh kar manzil talaash kar,
Mil jaae tujhko dariya to samandar talash kar,
Raz -e -Haram se shayad Iqbal bakhabar hai,
Hai unki guftugu ka andaz mehrabana
Ya Banda e Khuda ban ya banda-e-zamana,
Yeh Bandagi Khudai ,woh bandagi ghadai ,
-Allama Iqbal
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Truly. William Dalrymple is not only a brilliant historian and writer, but also a true giant.
Courage is not one of the virtues. It’s the foundation and a condition of all other virtues.
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ઉત્તર પ્રદેશના લખનૌમાં અવધના નવાબના મહેલ ખાતે, ભારતના બ્રિટિશ ગવર્નર-જનરલ ફ્રાન્સિસ રૉડન-હેસ્ટિંગ્સ (ધ અર્લ ઓફ મોઇરા)ના સન્માનમાં યોજાયેલા આતશબાજી પ્રદર્શન અને રોશનીના શણગારને દર્શાવતું ૨૧૨ વર્ષ જૂનું ચિત્ર ઈ.સ. ૧૮૧૪માં બનાવવામાં આવ્યું હતું.
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Very proud of my 2nd poetry book. I want to bring out an Indian edition with some more poems. Maybe a bilingual with sketches or perhaps two books. I wish there was someone who could publish. Meanwhile this is available with all online booksellers including amazon. #poetrylovers
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No Refusal ~ “Padmanabhan is not arguing that Calcutta should remain frozen in time. Rather, he questions a version of progress in which the city’s distinctive objects and history are discarded, leaving its urban identity increasingly indistinguishable from that of other places. The Ambassador may no longer be the most efficient taxi, but it has carried the city through decades of change, appearing in films and photographs by Satyajit Ray to Sujoy Ghosh and becoming a character in its own right.
“What does it mean, the idea of beauty and art, and how you want to immortalise it and remind generations that there’s great beauty in the ordinary?” Padmanabhan asked.
In No Refusal, the yellow taxi is both subject and witness. The photographs do not ask Calcutta to stand still, or pretend that its old cab can be restored to its former glory on the road. But as the city moves forward, it should not forget what once moved through and with it.”
theprint.in/feature/around-t…
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I keep watching this and I keep thinking that this is what the world needs. Kindness and love towards everyone
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Even a year back, I’d have loved what he said but would have thought he’s too earnest to get elected. That his message resonates gives hope, not just for Texas and the US but for the world
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A mirror, a Marwari horse, and a centuries-old craft.
Shoot day at Jos & Fine BTS.
#Kashmir #KaniShawl #MarwariHorse #JosAndFine #SrinagarBoy
ALT A man stands beside a saddled chestnut horse under a large autumn tree in golden sunlight, next to a full-length mirror in the woods draped with a vibrant, multicolored Kashmiri Pashmina shawl from Jos and Fine.
I like how he described Dhanpashu’s “tech robber barrons” …..
We climbed one mountain, but we are sitting at the base of another.
We will rebuild our healthcare system, bring in monumental campaign finance reforms, and tell the tech robber barons that money doesn’t give them the right to exist outside the rules we all live by.
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