The Living Notes

Puttaparthi  is a town in Anantapur district of Andhhrapradesh and is located on the banks of Chitravathi river and is surrounded by undulating hills.When I was small I had always wished for visiting  this place and take blessing from Sai Baba. It was quite amazing when we reached over there. Rather than a nostalgic trend, I'd say this place was providing us an escape from the stresses and strains and fulfilling our need to find downtime. It was such a beautiful and clean place with everyone greeting you a "sai ram" even if they had to say hello. We visited few of  the temples in anantapur, and also the main ashram in Puttaparthi which is known as Prasathi Nilayam. I learnt that Prasanthi Nilayam meant "the abode of highest peace". when we entered inside Prasanthi Nilayam , it was such a huge place consisting of splendid temples, public relations desk, post office, canteen, bakery, kitchens, dining halls, guest houses, dormitories etc. It also house

Visakhapatnam truly offers something for every person who has been bitten by a travel bug, from the beach hopping to the sea food. With eight beaches as well as hilltop parks, a nature preserve, caverns, wildlife sanctuaries, temples, sacred Buddhist monuments and a fascinating submarine museum, talking about our journey we took a train from Bhubaneshwar, Odhisha it was one night journey.On the next day we reached Vizag the main city. The next morning when we reached there we though of sightseeing the whole city, our first destination was Maritime Museum, which provides a display space for marine models, it was all beautiful when we saw the remains of ancient and historic ships and boats , even the ceiling has  ship carved onto it. The entire entrance looked like this They had antique pieces preserved, varieties of ship and its parts were briefly explained.a few minutes walk from the museum was a submarine museum was INS Kasure(S20) which was preserved for the public disp

Srirangapattana is a town in mandhya district of Indian State of Karnataka. It is located near the city of Mysore and is of religious cultural and historical importance. While I was researching about this place I found out that it was also nominated as UNESCO world heritage but its application is still spending.We were a group of three people, we started our journey from ban glore, from there we took a night train to srirangapattana, it was a 6 hours long journey from banglore, after we reached there we rented an autorikshaw for the entire day, first we went to Ranganthaswamy Temple, after that we took an entire round to visit the whole city.

THE SUN TEMPLE, KONARK, ORRISSA I have read somewhere that  the word “Konark” comes from the  sandhi  of two  shabdas , which is a culmination of two words named - “Kona + Arka”. Arka refers to Sun god while Kona refers to  direction  or  vision  .In Sanskrit, Sun god has many names like mithra,arka,bhanu,Udaya,Surya,aditya,bhaskara etc The temple was built exceptionally when I first visted the place, it was like I had only heard about it in books and seen it on Television, I was wander-struck when I saw how magnificent this place was. Each and every pillar of the walls were surrounded by iron plates studded with deities and Gods and every walls had its own story to tell. There are 24 wheels and Believe it or not, people thought that all the 24 wheels were just carved for beauty and as Hindu symbols. It was about 100 years ago, it was known that this was a sundial when an old yogi was seen calculating time secretly.  Apparently selected people w

Golden temple is situated in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India and is 2-3 kms from Amritsar Railway Station and approx 15kms from the Guru Ram Das International Airport.The Golden Temple" or Darbar Sahib is the most holiest Gurdwara of sikh.  The gurdwara is built in the center of man-made pool, it was constructed under the guidance of Guru Ram Dasin 1577, then the foundation stone was laid in 1589. After that in 1604, Guru Arjan placed a copy of the The Holy Book of Sikhism in Harmandir Sahib.  The Gurdwara was repeatedly rebuilt by the Sikhs after it was destroyed several times by Muslim armies from Afghanistan and the Mughal Empire. Maharaja Ranjit Singh after founding the Sikh Empire, rebuilt it in copper & marble in 1809 & overlaid the sanctum with gold foil in 1830. This gave it the name by which its known today "The Golden Temple".

This picture was taken in Phuentsholing Bhutan.The border place of India i.e Jaigon a five minutes walk from there will lead you to this Tshoten when you talk about Bhutan it is a small and predominantly a Buddhist nation somewhere tucked between China and India, a beautiful place where the GDP of the country is measured by the peoples happiness. Amazing, isnt it? B hutan for sure is not an ordinary place, the culture that they have is really beautiful, this country is more about mountains, monastry theres magic to this. It is the last great Himalayan Kingdom,covered with mystery and magic , a place where a traditional Buddhist culture carefully embraces global developments. This picture was taken in Gumpa of Kharbandi, where a habitat of Bhutan is seen using a mala in her hand , moving the beads one by one.  These are few of the pictures I have captured on my way to Phuentsholing , Bhutan.

Rock garden Chandigarh is one of most beautiful planned city located in North India which is capital of two state i.e Punjab and Haryana. Chandigarh state is bordered to North, West and South to punjab and East to Haryana. It is considered to be one of the clean and green city in India. Chandigarh is also destination to many tourist as it contain many popular places like Rock garden, Sukhna Lake, Rose Garden, Elante Mall and many more. garden made of waste tiles Statue made of waste material The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden located in Chandigarh, India. It was founded by Nek Chand who start garden secretly in spare of his time in 1957.  It is unique garden as it is completly made up of industrial and household waste materials.  man made waterfall It also contain man made waterfall and many other sculpture which is made of waste material such as water bottles, marble, glass, electrical waste, house appliances etc. every thing here