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Stories That Make India
Kalna’s Unique Shiva Temple
It is a temple complex that has no parallel. Join us as we take you to the spectacular Naba Kailash temple in Bengal’s Ambika Kalna that represents the beads of a rudraksha.
Snapshort Histories
Mahabalipuram: The Temple that Rose from the Sea
Archaeologists carried out excavations on a site unearthed after the 2004 tsunami in Tamil Nadu and they have been astounded...
Amazing India
Tamil Nadu’s Olakaneswar: A Pallava Temple or Lighthouse?
They are sentinels of a bygone past. Lighthouses have something romantic and other worldly about them and a few like Olakaneswar, a lighthouse built by Pallava kings in early 600 CE, truly stand out
Snapshort Histories
Raja Bhoja: The Scholar-King
Travel through the heart of India and you are likely to come across Raja Bhoja often. In folk tales, in the buildings he commissioned and also the city named after him ‘Bhopal’. Here is why this King’s legacy lives on