Archive for January, 2012

Cake for Ananth’s Tamil Birthday

January 23rd, 2012

Via Flickr:
This was the cake Aradhna had baked since it was Ananth’s Tamil Birthday which happend to be a week later and also was christmas .

Jain Temple Ruins @ Qutub Minar

January 2nd, 2012


The Qutub Minar complex initially housed 27 ancient Hindu and Jain temples, which were destroyed and their debris used to build the Qutub minar.One engraving on the Qutub Minar reads, “Shri Vishwakarma prasade rachita”

Pigeons over Ashok Pillar

January 2nd, 2012


Pigeons over Ashok Pillar, originally uploaded by Swami Stream.

Shot these birds at the Qutub Minar Complex in New Delhi.

The iron pillar of Delhi, India is a 7 meter (22 feet) high pillar in the Qutub complex which is notable for the composition of the metals used in its construction.

The pillar, which weighs more than six tons, is said to have been fashioned at the time of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya (375–413), though other authorities give dates as early as 912 BCE. The pillar initially stood in the centre of a Jain temple complex housing twenty-seven temples that were destroyed by Qutub-ud-din Aybak, and their material was used in building the Qutub Minar and Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque. The pillar and ruins of the temple stand all around the Qutb complex today. The pillar is 98% pure wrought iron, and is a testament to the high level of skill achieved by ancient Indian ironsmiths. It has attracted the attention of both archaeologists and metallurgists, as it has withstood corrosion for over 1,600 years in the open air.

Its a popular belies if you can touch your hands backwards on around the pillar you wish can come true but now there is a fence around the pillar so you cannot do that .
- Source, Wikipedia