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World Mosquito Day – Ronald Ross’ Labs in Hyderabad and Kolkata | Rangan Datta
20August is celebrated as the World Mosquito Day. On this day in 1897 Ronald Ross discovered the presence of malarial parasites in a dissected female Anopheles mosquito and concluded that the deadly disease was transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. Today the labs did his historic discovery still stands and can be seen in Hyderabad…
Pandava Ghallu – Prehistoric cave painting and rock formations | Rangan Datta
Pandava Ghallu, the cave of the Pandavas, is a rocky outcrop about 55 km from Warangal. It is a geological heritage with amazing rock formation, including a stone arch. The rocks also houses ancient rock paintings dating back over 10,000 years
Bhandar Loot, Guptipara | Rangan Datta
As the doors of the temple are thrown open, bare bodied men rush in to collect the bhog kept in earthen pots. Known as Bhandar Loot, this is a strange ritual followed in Guptipara, in Hooghly district. It happens on the day before Ulto Rath, where the bhog is not distributed but looted.
Diamond Triangle and Beyond | Rangan Datta
Around 80km north-east of Bhubaneswar and on the way to Paradeep lies a collection of three Buddhist sites of Udaygiri, Ratnagiri and Lalitgiri, popularly known as the Diamond Triangle. Apart from the three sites there are over half a dozen Buddhist sites in this region
Association of Buddhist Tour Operators (ABTO) Convention, Kushinagar | Rangan Datta
Association of Buddhist Tour Operators (ABTO) is an association aimed at promoting Buddhist Tourism in South, Southeast Asia and beyond. They had their 6th Convention in Kushinagar along with a FAM tour covering Kushinagar and Lumbani
Pune Zero Stone, a failed conservation and landscaping project | Rangan Datta
Zero point or zero mile stones afre points from which distance of a city is measured. After the completion of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) in 1871 about 80 cites were marked with the zero point and few of them have survived including the one in Pune.
Bidar, the mighty citadel of the Deccan | Rangan Datta
Bidar is a non-descript town in the north-eastern corner of Karnataka, bordering Telangana. The mighty citadel of Bidar flourished under the patronage of the Bahamani and Barid Shahi rulers, who turned it into one of the most formidable citadels of medieval south India.
Kozhikamuthi Elephant Camp, Topslip, Annamalai Tiger Reserve | Rangan Datta
Kozhikamuthi Elephant Camp Topslip, Annamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu Also see: FAM Trip of Tamil Nadu 2022 News of wild elephants going on rampage in agricultural fields and attacking humans are quiet common in different parts of India. No wonder with the increasing human population the wild elephants are losing their ground. They often make…