Nahargarh Fort

 Nahargarh Fort standing magnificently at the

 Aravali range in Jaipur. 

At the edge of a lonely ridge 

 

This is the entrance to Naumahala (Nine apartments)

built for the  nine queens of the Maharaja. 

These are just nine rooms and they call it Mahal.

It is a beautiful structure with narrow and long corridors

and yes small windows

 

Blue sky and clouds mesmerizing the beauty of the domes.

A tower in the backdrop gives a glimpse of developments

going around the Fort.

A shadow of a cloud on the hills in the backdrop gives the impression of a Bat.

 

 Domes adorning the jaipur City

A room in the Hotel in the adjacent fort, I am forgetting the name must be Mahender Pratap Fort

A view of Jaipur city. surrounded by Aravalli Hills. 

i think in one of my previous births

 i was born in one of these palaces and forts.

i feel as if i belong to Rajasthan

Rose

Dream is not that, what you see in sleep.

Dream is the thing which does not allow you to sleep - Steve Jobs

Do not compare yourself with anyone in this World

If you do so, you are insulting yourself

Being frank is always better than being falsely sweet

because by being frank in life,

we may get lot of true enemies

 but surely not untrue relations.

Jaiselmer - Haveli of Salam Singh

Salam Singh a Diwan of the Kingdom with high ambitions.

His ambitions aimed at the throne so the ruler aimed his gun at Salam Singh

He made this Majistic Haveli which can be reassembled even today by just removing its carved walls.

It was really very difficult to avoid this magnificent building

Salam singh had set his eyes on a village girl when he told the villagers that he will come to take her with him,

the whole village abandoned the village the same night

It seems it is made of Gold-a solid gold

A stone for worship

The door in haveli is fixed without any nails, nuts and bolts.

It can be removed easily with a little effort.

Broken pieces of sun shade

The Haveli of the Diwan of Ruler of Jaiselmer

glaring the Jaiselmer Fort.

I had a small fight with the descendents of Salam Singh.

Later on, I heard heated arguments with some other tourist,

 this time it was a foreigner.

Jaiselmer - Golden City

Jaiselmer - The Golden City a city of Rajputs. 

Ruled by Bhatti Rajputs. 

 Jaiselmer, one of important land routes for trade in ancient times was the last princely state

to sign the treaty with British.

 The story goes back to Bhatti Rajputs,

some of them later on migrated to Talwandi and

Larkana and settled there with the name Bhutto.

Jaiselmer city woven intricately in the Yellow stone,

 the Jaiselmer stone,

sitting on the borders of India and Pakistan amidst the scorching heat of Thar desert.

The film Nanhe Jaiselmer and one of  Amir Khan's movies was shot here in the above location.

The bejewlled ceiling of the palace - it is the Belgium glass

Lovely jharokha in the palace...

Jaiselmer the princely state of this Western side of our country have its Fort made without water, with  low ceilings and magnificently carved walls.

We were told by our Autorickshaw driver cum guide that the criminals from the neighbouring states were left here to die in the scorching heat of the desert and also there was scaricity of water.

The quote used for them was

- JAA SALE MAR -

The poetry carved in Yellow stones 

 leave eyes and mouth wide open and

then lips shrinking into WOW

view of Jaiselmer city from Jaiselmer Fort

The royal gallery in Fort.

 Its low ceiling talks of the architecture.

ceiling of the Jaiselmer Palace painted with Golden and

majestically bright colours.

so as the walls...painted with the most popular love birds

Radha and Krishan

 

Every body talks of frescos of Michelanglo,

so much is written about those frescos,

sadly no attention is paid to the majestic frescos in our country.....

 

 ...these are incomparable........

The carved Jhrokhas of the corridors and rooms of the Jaiselmer Palace, speak the glory of the past ...

Trip to Jaiselmer was not a JAA SALE MAR,

but it was PADHARO SAA...AAVO JI MHARE DES...

The tradition of ear piercing in men is found in Rajputs only.

Here I heard the name of Gulabo the queen of desert folklore, 

for the first time. 

Gulabo appeared in the Bigg Boss season 5 and couldn't stand the politics of Bigg Boss and evicted from the Bigg Boss

 within few weeks.   

Carvings in Goa

When it comes to Goa, only two things come to the mind -

its magnificent Beaches......

 and Churches

and yes its Cuisine ......

and Carnival....

I feel myself lucky to visit more reclusive sites of Goa.......

These are carvings found in South Goa,

I am forgeting the name of place and district...

I visited this place in the month of February 2009

We were told to pour water on these carvings

to get the actual shape of the creatures

or murals carved on the sides of the river....

Some of these were dears, peacocks, or a hunter.....

What this figure actually depicts, we do not know...

these carvings are lying scattered on the ...

side of the calm and quite water of river..

Most of the times, these are covered with water

as the level of the adjacent.....

water body raises its leves, specially during the rains....

This I suppose a dear or a goat....

This was a wild guess of our team that it might be a bull...

with the pouring of water these carvings come to life....

Unfortunately no material was found on these carvings. 

I wonder that how and why these are still unknown. 

Even one of my friends who stayed in Goa for so many years,

does not have the idea about these carvings...

we wanted desparately to know

 who created them and

 when these were carved. 

If we look at the creatures,

it reminds one of the pictures seen in

history books in seventh or eighth standard. 

The creatures shown in these carvings

are somewhat similar to them.

Small material was found in Marathi only.

  It is good that somebody is working on it. 

I will try to get that.

This wast country called Bharat--

 how many things are there which are yet to be explored,

stories to be told......do not know.