Coming down from Sahastratal after two most stunning but grueling days of the trek. With mashals in hand this an amazing picture where Rastogi ji, Puran Jangpangi can be recognized.
A dialogue from the popular film ‘Dead Poets Society’ reminds us тАЬMedicine, law, engineeringтАж are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, loveтАж these are what we stay alive for…” Indeed, poetry and beauty is what we live for; poetry is what inspires generations to voice their aspirations. So here is something to cheer us up in corona times.
‘Verses from the Valley’ is┬аour tribute to the revered poets from Kashmir and their celebrated poetry. Ishtihaar Calendar for 2022 is a small collection of select verses by mystics, sufi saints, social reformers and poets of this incredibly┬аbeautiful place, rightly┬аcalled Firdaus or Paradise.┬а
A clock replaced the good old bell. Effectively, two hands of a clock replaced a tongue or the clapper of the bell. The clock could do by itself all that the bell couldn’t. To begin with the clock couldn’t be heard afar like the bell, so they built a bell inside the clock. тАЛThe word clock actually comes from the French for Bell.тАЛYes, an alarm was added to the clock which would do exactly what the bell did. The Bell Towers of yore were replaced by Clock Towers with easy availability of large size clocks in the 15th century.
Ram Roop Tower, aka Sabzi Mandi Ghanta Ghar in north Delhi’s Kamla Nagar area.
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