Half a day at Vadodara
October 21st 2008 Vadodara was known as Baroda formerly
When I started to write about our recent trip to Vadodara, I found to my delight that the venerable ‘Vatvriksha’ became a mundane ‘Banyan’ tree in English language because early British found that the Hindu Gujrati ‘Banias’ (merchants) mostly conducted their business in the shade of these trees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan
Whenever I st
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