Just imagine! Circa 1110 AD. Cambodia. Or Kamboj Desh. World population is a mere 340 million (estimates range from 310 m to about 350 m); Cambodia about 1.4 million and the other absolutely related country, India counts at about 40 million. Here at Angkor, Cambodia, a project of untold proportions to be accomplished over the next …
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An innocuous message from the WordPress people ‘password for this site has been changed. Contact your email administrator.’ It appeared as harmless a message as that. Before anything I asked my elder child, an what the implication of such a message was? What he told me raised my heckles. I tried to open my site, …
Ever since got back from Angkor, I have been reading and reading a lot regards everything Angkor; even if remotely related to it. I have read a great deal regards temples in India, and there are many of them, regarding temple architecture, about how temples are created, selection of sites and every conceivable nuance that …
Whilst endeavouring to learn more about the intricacies at Angkor, the first name that came up was of Kanchi near Chennai, India. Kanchi is one of the eight most sacred places of pilgrimage for Indians whilst Rameshwaram is one of the four Dhams (sacred most destinations) which a person in mandated to visit at least …
Just as I thought that the photographs I had taken at Angkor were good enough, I began to see blemishes in them. I felt that I should have taken some in landscape mode whilst those were in the portrait mode. Whereas clarity in some was undesirable, some were very dark. Owing to East-west orientation of the Temples, …
Every nation has a currency. But one nation out of the 200 odd that make this world has a currency that is universal. yes, the US dollar. Yet, in most of the countries, they accept dollar surreptitiously unless you are an authorised money changer. there it is free for all. Not so in Cambodia. Or …
Every nation has a currency. But one nation out of the 200 odd that make this world has a currency that is universal. yes, the US dollar. Yet, in most of the countries, they accept dollar surreptitiously unless you are an authorised money changer. there it is free for all. Not so in Cambodia. Or …
Being an avid nature watcher, one never spares a chance to be amidst it. Besides regularly watching the National Geographic, Animal Planet and the History channels on the Television, photography has been the only other hobby than reading. Used to possess a Nikon FT-2 long time ago to be followed with a N6666. Then a …
What I could not fathom, my little daughter Koush solved it for me. One evening, I was muttering something unto myself as I was progressing with my site and managing thousand odd pictures taken by me during my visits to Angkor, that she enquired as to my problem. Perhaps with a thought of wishing her away and …
Chinese are excelling in every field, is common knowledge. They have begun to take the world by storm, if not done that already. It is not a new phenomenon. Sun Tzu and his ilk gave a new insight into fundamental thinking. Zhou Daguan was a similar man who visited Angkor Wat nearly 840 years ago and …