Qutub Minar

MAGICAL INDIA AT LAST - November/December 2018

November 13th 2018
I have always wanted to go on a pilgrimage to India - it was here that my great grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Allen was born in 1870 and lived in the country until the early 1900s. Her parents were James Allen who was a military man and Elizabeth Moore but I do not have any information on them apart from their names, although a ‘family story’ said that Elizabeth (nee Moore) was in some way ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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Paul & Sheila Williams

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We love to travel and experience different places and particularly like to view and photograph the world's wonderful array of wildlife - and we are so so lucky to still be able to do so although a little slower these days. After retiring in 2010, we have travelled the world covering every continent as older generation nomads - hence our name Silvernomads. We have been really blessed to live out our retirement as we had always dreamed when we worked all those long years. The world is such a kaleidoscope of colours and cultures that have blown our senses away and this blog is a great means... full info

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14th November 2018

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

The forgotten cultural gem of India
Thanks for telling me about Old and New Delhi and bringing back some memories from my own visits there. There are many well known gems in India. For instance Qutub Minar, Taj Mahal, Golden Temple of Amritsar and on and on and on. But next time I go to India I am going to spend some time trying to locate an almost completely forgotten cultural gem - the stairwells. There are maybe a thousand of these scattered all over India. Most have been abandoned and some of them are in bad repair or more or less ruined. But there are also maybe hundreds which each is an architectural masterpiece. /Ake

23rd November 2018

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Paul & Sheila Williams

Many thanks
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