Muharram
Muḥarram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year. It is held to be the second holiest month, after Ramadan . Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar,…
Maha Shivaratri
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the lord Shiva. There is a Shivaratri in every luni-solar month of the Hindu calendar, on the month’s 13th night/14th day, but once a year in late winter (February/March,…
Republic Day
Republic Day honours the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950 replacing the Government of India Act (1935) as the governing document of India. The Constitution was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly…
Khandvi
Ingredients ½ cup: Chick-pea flour ½ cup: Sour yogurt ½ tsp: Ginger paste ½ tsp: Green chilli paste ½ tsp: Chilli powder 1/8 tsp: Asafoetida 1/8 tsp: Turmeric ½ tsp: Mustard seeds 2 Sabut lal mirch 2 tsp: Oil 1…
Gobi Manchurian
Ingredients (Serves: 6) 1 pcs: Cauliflower (medium, clean and broken into big florettes) 1/4 cup: Plain flour 3 tsp: Cornflour 1 small bunch: Spring onion (finely chopped) 2 tsp: Ginger (finely chopped) 1 tsp: Garlic (finely chopped) 1/4 tsp: Red…
Kedarnath
The Celestial Jyotirlingam Amidst the dramatic mountainscapes of the majestic Kedarnath range stands one of the twelve ‘Jyotirlingas’ of Kedar or Lord Shiva. Lying at an altitude of 3584 mts. on the head of river Mandakini, the shrine of Kedarnath…
Mizoram
Mizoram is one of the Seven Sister States in northeastern India on the border with Myanmar. Its population at the 2001 census stood at 888,573. Mizoram boasts a literacy rate of 88.8% — the second highest among all the states of India, after Kerala.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan is the largest state of the Republic of India in terms of area but encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert) which has an edge that parallels the Sutlej-Indus river valley along it’s border with Pakistan. The region borders Pakistan to the west, Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasthan covers an area of 342,239 km² (132,139 mi²).