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” In our days, Hardware was Found in Hardware Shop and name of Software was Never Heard … ” !!!!

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The Best Answer an Older Person Can Give

Some time ago, a loving gradnson was talking to his grandmother about modern life. He asked for her opinion on everything that has been going on in the last few years. His grandmother gave him a long look and said: “Well, let me see…
I was born before:
* penicillin
* television

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* frozen foods
* Xerox
* contact lenses
* Frisbees and
* the pill
There were no:
* credit cards
* laser beams or
* ball-point pens
Man had not yet invented:
* pantyhose
* dishwashers
* clothes dryers
* and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
Nor has man walked on the moon yet.
Your Grandfather didn*t live together until we got married. There were very few single mothers.
Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, “Sir.”
And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, “Sir.”
We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.
Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.
We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege.
We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.
Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends, not purchasing condominiums.
We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CD*s, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President*s speeches on our radios.
If you saw anything with *Made in Japan * on it, it was junk.
The term *making out* referred to how you did on your school exam.
Pizza Hut, McDonald*s, and instant coffee were unheard of. We had 5 & 10-cent (5 and dime) stores
where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.
Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel.
And if you didn*t want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.
You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.
In my day:
* “grass” was mowed,
* “coke” was a cold drink,
* “pot” was something your mother cooked in and
* “rock music” was your grandmother*s lullaby.
* “Aids” were helpers in the Principal*s office,
* “chip” meant a piece of wood,
* “hardware” was found in a hardware store and.
* “software” wasn*t even a word.
We volunteered to protect our precious country.
No wonder people call us “old and confused” and say there is a generation gap.
How old do you think I am?
Read on to see… Are you ready??
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This woman would be only 65 years old.

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She would have been born in late 1950.
Gives you something to think about, doesn’t it?
So much has changed in one lifetime. !!!
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Watch Sunday Spacewalk on March 1…

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NASA astronaut Terry, Virts Flight Engineer of Expedition 42 is seen working to complete a cable routing task while near the forward facing port of the Harmony module on the International Space Station. February 21, 2015. Image credit: NASA

NASA astronaut Terry, Virts Flight Engineer of Expedition 42 is seen working to complete a cable routing task while near the forward facing port of the Harmony module on the International Space Station. February 21, 2015. Image credit: NASA

On Sunday (March 1, 2015) two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will perform the last of Expedition 42’s scheduled spacewalks. The spacewalk will begin around 6:10 a.m. Central Time and is expected to last about 6 hours, 45 minutes. NASA Television coverage on Sunday will begin at 5 a.m. Central time. Watch here

NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts completed the first spacewalk on February 21 and the second on Wednesday (February 25.)

The spacewalks are designed to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. The astronauts are laying cables along the forward end of the U.S. segment to bring power and communication to two International Docking Adapters slated to arrive later this year. The new docking ports will welcome U.S. commercial spacecraft launching from Florida beginning in 2017, permitting the standard station crew size to grow from six to seven and potentially double the amount of crew time devoted to research.

When astronaut Terry Virts returned the airlock after Wednesday’s spacewalk, he reported a minor seepage of water in his helmet. The Mission Management Team reviewed the status of spacewalk preparations as well as an analysis of the minor seepage of water and on Friday morning, the team expressed a high degree of confidence was that the suit’s systems are all in good shape and gave approval to proceed with Sunday’s spacewalk as planned.

Spacewalk specialists reported that Virts’ suit — serial number 3005 — has a history of what is called “sublimator water carryover”, a small amount of residual water in the sublimator cooling component that can condense once the environment around the suit is re-pressurized following its exposure to vacuum during a spacewalk, resulting in a tiny amount of water pushing into the helmet.

Spacewalkers Terry Virts and Barry Wilmore work outside Pressurized Mating Adapter-2. Image credit: NASA TV

Spacewalkers Terry Virts and Barry Wilmore work outside Pressurized Mating Adapter-2. Image credit: NASA TV

NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore works outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks preparing the station for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft, Saturday, February 21, 2015. Fellow spacewalker Terry Virts, seen reflected in the visor, shared this photograph on social media. View larger. \ Image credit; NASA

NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore works outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks preparing the station for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft, Saturday, February 21, 2015. Fellow spacewalker Terry Virts, seen reflected in the visor, shared this photograph on social media.
View larger. | Image credit: NASA

During Sunday’s spacewalk, Virts and Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore will deploy 400 feet of cable along the truss of the station and install antennas as part of the new Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles (C2V2) system that will provide rendezvous and navigational data to visiting vehicles approaching the station, including the new U.S. commercial crew vehicles

NASA astronaut Terry Virts Flight Engineer of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station is seen working to complete a cable routing task while the sun begins to peak over the Earth’s horizon on February 21 2015. Image credit: NASA

NASA astronaut Terry Virts Flight Engineer of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station is seen working to complete a cable routing task while the sun begins to peak over the Earth’s horizon on February 21 2015. Image credit: NASA

All three spacewalks are in support of the long-planned ISS reconfiguration from its current configuration, which was designed to support visiting Space Shuttles, to its new configuration optimived for future visiting commercial crew and cargo vehicles.

While cargo vehicles attach to the ISS using the process of berthing, whereby they are captured with the station’s robotic arm and positioned below a berthing port prior to being bolted into place, commercial crew vehicles will not use this method.

This is because the process of un-berthing takes a long time to complete, since cables and ducting between the visiting spacecraft and the ISS must first be manually disconnected, control boxes installed, hatches closed, and then the visiting spacecraft must be maneuvered away from the station with the robotic arm.

This means that berthing ports cannot support a rapid evacuation of crew from the ISS should it ever be necessary, which will be one of the primary roles of the commercial crew vehicles as they serve as “lifeboats” during their crew’s stay at the ISS.

Instead, crewed vehicles will attach to the ISS via a process of docking, whereby the visiting spacecraft flies itself all the way into its docking port and attaches via a capture ring striking a corresponding attachment mechanism..

The leading end effector of the Canadarm2 (bottom foreground) will be lubricated Wednesday when astronauts Barry Wilmore conduct their second spacewalk. Imge credit: NASA TV

The leading end effector of the Canadarm2 (bottom foreground) will be lubricated Wednesday when astronauts Barry Wilmore conduct their second spacewalk. Image credit: NASA TV

Bottom line: NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) completed the first of three spacewalk on February 21, 2105 and the second on February. On Sunday (March 1, 2015) they will perform the last of Expedition 42’s scheduled spacewalks. The astronauts are securing cables to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew.

SOURCE::::www.earthsky.org

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Image of the Day… ” Photo of Meteor Shower Captured thro Airplane Window ” !!!

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Another good reason to grab that window seat! Colin Legg captured this great photo of a meteor shower, seen from an airplane window.

View larger. | Alpha Centaurid Meteor Shower @ 40,000 ft by Colin Legg Photography

View larger. | Alpha Centaurid Meteor Shower @ 40,000 ft by Colin Legg Photography

Leave it to Colin Legg – one of the most amazing sky photographers we know – to catch a meteor shower from the window seat of an airplane. Colin wrote to EarthSky:

Valentines day (night), red eye flight back to Perth.

I had another go at night shots out the plane window … this time under very dark no moon conditions. Most of the flight was bumpy due to cold fronts, but things calmed down once we crossed the Western Australia coastline. I fired off a 20-minute burst of 1-second exposures, shielding the camera from cabin lights under a black hood.

Amazingly, the Alpha Centaurid meteor shower was also active!

Apologies for the excessive noise. Due to plane motion and minor turbulence, I couldn’t expose for much longer than 1 second and keep the stars sharp. Notwithstanding, it is quite amazing that modern day cameras can capture so much detail in 1 second on a no moon night.

Western Australia, ~40,000 ft, 10:50 -> 11:10 pm WST, Feb 14 2015

Bottom line: On Valentines Day night, 2015, Colin Legg caught the Alpha Centaurid meteor shower from the window seat of an airplane.

SOURCE:::: http://www.earthskynews.org

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Joke of the Day… ” I am fine … ” !!!

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Farmer Joe was in his car when he was hit by a truck. He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court the trucking company’s fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. “Didn’t you say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine’?” said the lawyer.

Farmer Joe responded, “Well I’ll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule Bessie into the….” “I didn’t ask for any details,” the lawyer interrupted, “just answer the question.”

“Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, ‘I’m fine’!”

Farmer Joe said, “Well I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road….”

The lawyer interrupted again and said, “Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question.”

By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe’s answer and said to the lawyer, “I’d like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie.”

Joe thanked the Judge and proceeded, “Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other.

I was hurting real bad and didn’t want to move. However, I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans.

Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes.

Then the Patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me. He said, “Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?”

SOURCE:::: http://www.joke a day.com

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68 வருடம் சேவை … ஒரே அலுவலகம் … 95 வயதில் ஓய்வு…!!!..

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சிறந்த அலுவலகமாக தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட செண்பகனூர் கிளை அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம். (உள்படம்) கே.வி.பீட்டர்.

சிறந்த அலுவலகமாக தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட செண்பகனூர் கிளை அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம். (உள்படம்) கே.வி.பீட்டர்.

கடந்த கால் நூற்றாண்டுக்கு முன்பு வரை தபால்காரர் என்பவர் எல்லோராலும் ஆவலுடன் எதிர்பார்க்கப்பட்ட கதாநாயகர்.

இவை எல்லாம் மறக்க முடியாத சிறந்த காலக்கட்டம் அது. அப்போது இந்தியாவின் சிறந்த அஞ்சல் அலுவலகமாக கொடைக்கானல் அருகேயுள்ள செண்பகனூர் கிளை அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது. இதற்குக் காரணம், அந்த அலுவலகத்தில் பணியாற்றிய போஸ்ட் மாஸ்டர் (கிளை அஞ்சலக அதிகாரி) கே.வி. பீட்டர்.

தொடக்கத்தில், கொடைக்கானல் மலைவாழ் மக்களிடையே கிறிஸ்தவ மத போதகராகத்தான் வாழ்க்கையைத் தொடங்கினார் கே.வி.பீட்டர். அடர்ந்த மலைப் பகுதியான செண்பகனூர் அஞ்சல் அலுவலகத்துக்கு போஸ்ட்மாஸ்டராக பணிபுரிய யாருமே முன்வராதபோது, 1913-ல் தனது 27-வது வயதில் சேவை அடிப்படையில் பணியில் சேர்ந்தார் கே.வி.பீட்டர். அந்த ஒரே அலுவலகத்தில் 95 வயது வரை அதாவது 68 ஆண்டுகள் தொடர்ந்து பணிபுரிந்தார்.

இதுகுறித்து தேசிய விருது பெற்ற முன்னாள் அஞ்சல் அலுவலர் கோவை என். ஹரிஹரன் ‘தி இந்து’ விடம் கூறும்போது, ‘பேருக்குத்தான் கே.வி.பீட்டர் செண்பகனூர் அஞ்சல் அதிகாரி. ஆனால், அங்கு அவர்தான் போஸ்ட் மாஸ்டர், தபால்காரர், அலுவலக எழுத்தர், விற்பனையாளர் என எல்லாம். இப்போதுதான் கொடைக்கானல் சர்வதேச கோடைவாசஸ்தலம்.

அப்போது, கொடைக்கானல், செண்பகனூர் பகுதிகள் மக்கள் நடமாட்டமே இல்லாத அடர்ந்த மலைப்பிரதேசமாக இருந்தன. கரடுமுரடான மலைப் பாதையில் நடந்துதான் அலுவலகத்துக்கு வர வேண்டும். நடந்து சென்றுதான் தபால்களை பட்டுவாடா செய்ய வேண்டும். அப்போது, கொடைக்கானல் செண்பகனூர் பகுதியில் ஆங்கிலேய அரசின் உயர் அதிகாரிகள், வெளிநாட்டு சுற்றுலாப் பயணிகள் நிரந்தரமாகவும், மாதக்கணக்கிலும் தங்கியிருப்பர். ஆங்கிலேயருக்கு ஏராளமான தபால்கள் வரும். அவர்களும் தபால், மணியார்டர்களை வெளியூர்களுக்கு அனுப்புவர்.

கே.வி.பீட்டர் தனி ஆளாக, தனது முழு சக்தியையும் அஞ்சல் துறைக்காகவே செலவிட்டார். தபால்களை அவரே பிரிப்பார்; பட்டுவாடா செய்வார்.

நேரம், காலம் பாராமல் திருமணம் செய்து கொள்ளாமலே அஞ்சல் அலுவலகத்தையே வாழ்க்கையாக நினைத்தார். அன்றைய காலக்கட்டத் தில் ஓராண்டில் 16 ஆயிரம் ரூபாய்க்கு தபால்தலைகளை விற்று சாதனை படைத்தார் (கிளை அஞ்சல் அலுவலக வரலாற்றில் அப்போதைய சாதனை). அதனால், செண்பகனூர் அஞ்சல் அலுவலகத்தை 1983-ல் இந்தியா வின் சிறந்த அஞ்சல் அலுவலகமாக மத்திய அரசு அறிவித்தது.

இதற்கு காரணமான கே.வி.பீட்டருக்கு மத்திய அரசு பத்ம விருது வழங்கி கவுரவித்தது. ஓய்வே இல்லாமல் பணிபுரிந்த அவருக்கு, அவரது 62-வது வயதில் 62 நாட்கள் முழு ஊதியத்துடன் அஞ்சல் துறை விடுமுறை வழங்கியது. அஞ்சல் துறை மீது அவருக்கு இருந்த ஈடுபாட்டை பாராட்டி, ஆயுட்காலம் வரை அங்கேயே பணிபுரிய கே.வி.பீட்டருக்கு மத்திய அரசு சிறப்பு அனுமதி வழங்கி உத்தரவிட்டது.

அதனால், 95 வயது வரை அங்கேயே பணிபுரிந்த அவர், முதுமை காரணமாக ஓய்வு பெற்றார்.

10 ரூபாய்க்கு பணியில் சேர்ந்த கே.வி.பீட்டர், 210 ரூபாய் ஊதியம் வாங்கும்போது ஓய்வுபெற்றார். ஆனாலும், 105-வது வயதில் தான் இறக்கும்வரை செண்பகனூர் அஞ்சல் அலுவலகத்தை தன் கண்காணிப்பிலேயே வைத்திருந் தார். சமூக அமைப்புகள் உதவிய தால், கே.வி.பீட்டர் ஊதியத்தை எதிர்பார்க்காமல் வாழ்நாள் முழுவ தும் கடைசி மூச்சு வரை தபால் துறைக்காக வாழ்ந்தார்’’ என்றார்.

சிறந்த அலுவலகமாக தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்ட செண்பகனூர் கிளை அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம். (உள்படம்) கே.வி.பீட்டர்.

இந்திரா காந்தியின் பாராட்டுக் கடிதம்

இந்திரா காந்தி பிரதமராக இருந்தபோது அவரது உதவியாளர் மூலம் கே.வி.பீட்டருக்கு அனுப்பிய பாராட்டுக் கடிதத்தில், ‘சாதாரண பணியிலும் ஒருவரால் திறம்படச் செயல்பட முடியும் என்பதற்கு உதாரணமாகத் திகழ்கிறீர்கள்’ என்று குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருந்தது. 1946-ல் தகவல் தொடர்புத் துறை அரசு செயலராக இருந்த கிருஷ்ணபிரசாத், கே.வி.பீட்டரின் சேவையைப் பாராட்டி தங்க கைகடிகாரத்தை பரிசாக வழங்கினார்.

கொடைக்கானலுக்கு சுற்றுலா செல்பவர்கள், அலுவல் நிமித்தமாக கொடைக்கானல் செல்லும் அஞ்சலக அதிகாரிகள், இன்றும் செண்பகனூர் அஞ்சல் அலுவலகத்தை சுற்றுலாத் தலம்போல பார்வையிட்டுச் செல்கின்றனர்.

SOURCE:::::ஒய்.ஆண்டனி செல்வராஜ்  in http://www.tamil.the hindu.com
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Joke of the Day… ” Sand Bags…” !!!

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Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He’s got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, “What’s in the bags?”

“Sand,” answered Juan.

The guard says, “We’ll just see about that. Get off the bike.” The guard detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. He releases Juan and lets him cross the border.

A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, “What’s in the bags?”

“Sand,” says Juan.

The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.

This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years.

Finally, Juan doesn’t show up one day and the guard meets him in a Cantina in Mexico.

“Hey Buddy,” says the guard, “I know you are smuggling something. It’s driving me crazy. It’s all I think about…Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?”

Juan sips his beer and says, “Bicycles.” !!!

SOURCE:::: http://www.joke a day.com

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Message For the Day….” The Game Called Life is Played with….”

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When rains come, earth and sky are one in the sheety downpour. It is indeed a beautiful and inspiring scene, an imagery by which creation itself is teaching you to become one with the Creator. Learn three lessons: the impermanence of created things, your role as a servant, and God as the Master. The game called life is played with these – the process of creation, the created, the Creator. Rejoice that the Lord continues to place in your hands newer ways to serve Him and exult in the chance you receive. This attitude will give you immeasurable joy; to lead a life suffused with this joy is indeed bliss. Whatever is done from sunrise to sunset must be consecrated, as if it is the worship of the Lord. Just as care is taken to pluck only fresh flowers and to keep them clean and unfaded, so too, continuous and persistent effort should be made to perform deeds that are pure and unsullied. 

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Lesser Known Facts about Taj Mahal ….

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What don’t you know about the Taj Mahal?

What don’t you know about the Taj Mahal? Source: Getty Images

IT’S no secret that the Taj Mahal is a monument of love, built by a Mogul emperor as the final resting place for his beloved queen who died giving birth to their 14th child in 1631.

What’s less known is that the white-marbled tomb was not her first resting place after death.

Queen Mumtaz Mahal in fact died some 900 kilometres away in central India’s Burhanpur town and was buried there, in a rose-tinted sandstone pavilion in her favourite deer park. The once opulent and richly decorated pavilion is now a sad, crumbling ruin, thanks to neglect and apathy by authorities and Burhanpur’s own 200,000 residents.

And it’s not the only gem in the treasure chest of this town, which even most Indians could not identify on a map.

Behind its dirty, unpaved streets and open garbage dumps, Burhanpur hides an abundance of magnificent Islamic monuments dating back to 15th century. Once an important trading and military outpost, Burhanpur slipped into margins of history in less than two centuries and is now nowhere to be found in any tourist advertisement.

On a recent trip, we found in Burhanpur the ruins of a riverside palace; airy pavilions with intricately carved pillars; grand stone mausoleums with latticed windows that throw filtered beams of dusty light on the graves inside; a royal bath house with cheerful paintings of birds and flowers; austere and imposing mosques with incredibly fine calligraphy, and a fort on a cliff with a mind-boggling view of the undulating plains below.

Each one of the town’s treasures is a reminder of India’s rich multicultural history and the contribution that about 800 years of Muslim rule made to the predominantly Hindu country’s heritage.

Mogul Queen Mumtaz Mahal's first resting place.

Mogul Queen Mumtaz Mahal’s first resting place. Source: AP

Many of the monuments in the town are in utter neglect. Infrastructure as basic as toilets and roads to the sites is missing. Open drains run along some important tombs, which are ravaged by overgrown shrubs. Mountains of garbage greet visitors.

“Every monument here tells a story. Every stone here says ‘come to me and listen to what I have to say’ but there is nobody to listen or to take care of them,” lamented Hoshang Havaldar, 60, who has lived all his life in Burhanpur, and runs one of only two decent hotels in the town.

Burhanpur was ruled by the founding Faruqi dynasty from 1400 to 1599 and by the fabled Moguls from 1600, when Emperor Akbar conquered it. His grandson, Emperor Shah Jahan, ran his military campaigns against southern kingdoms from Burhanpur, accompanied by his wife Mumtaz.

Emperor Shah Jahan had originally planned to build the Taj Mahal in Burhanpur.

Emperor Shah Jahan had originally planned to build the Taj Mahal in Burhanpur. Source: AP

She died while giving birth to their 14th child and was buried in a pavilion facing a small palace in a deer park.

Today, the Ahukhana, as the park was called, and its two buildings are one of the most dilapidated among Burhanpur’s treasures.

The sprawling park is locked up with no caretaker. Its rusty metal gates are tied by a chain loose enough to leave enough space for humans or animals to slip through. The grounds are overgrown with shrubs and weeds. Wild goats and cows roam freely. All that remain of the one-story pavilion are pillars and walls, some art work on them still visible. Its ceiling is no more.

For about six months, Mumtaz’s body remained in the pavilion while Shah Jahan made plans to build the Taj Mahal on the banks of the nearby River Tapti.

But unfortunately Burhanpur’s geography, geology and hydrology conspired against his plans.

According to historians, Shah Jahan wanted the monument to be of white marble, which was only available in the faraway Markana, making transportation difficult. River Tapti’s breadth was a little narrow where he envisaged the mausoleum — meaning it would not be reflected fully in the water on moonlit nights. Finally, the rock-bed just wasn’t right to hold up a building of that mass. As it turned out, Agra on the banks of majestically wide River Yamuna and not too far from Markana, was the perfect choice.

Mumtaz’s body was disinterred and taken to Agra, then the imperial capital of the Mogul empire that ruled India from 15th to 19th centuries. And so Burhanpur faded away.

One of the most beautiful monuments in Burhanpur is the tomb of Bilquis Jahan, the wife of Shah Jahan’s son. It is known as the Kharboozi Gumbaz, or Melon Dome, because of its distinctive dome and bulging walls that look like the fruit. An unimposing structure, it nevertheless stands out because of its shape and stunning interior — every corner of its walls and roof is decorated with murals in floral pattern, its colours as fresh as they were centuries ago.

But to get there we had to walk through a graveyard, where a horse lay dying in a ditch while little boys played nearby.

This is the real resting place.

This is the real resting place. Source: AP 

If you go

Burhanpur: Located in Madhya Pradesh state, about 180km from Indore, the city with the nearest airport. The drive from Indore takes about four hours. Madhya Pradesh State Tourism runs a hotel, Tapti Retreat,

SOURCE:::: http://www.news.com.au   Travel Column

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