Virginia Water is a small village / upper class suburb of London near Windsor. It is named after a large man-made lake of that name in Great Windsor park. A sort of pensioner’s paradise and rich man’s abode, in this town, property agent’s windows display lists many property prices in the range of 2.5 million pounds.
A nice panorama [...]

Pudukkottai, a district (also a town by that name) bordering Trichy, is a less well known place of Tamilnadu but hides more history than many of its more famous neighbors. In this region were found some of the oldest human remains in Tamilnadu. It is also home to many of the the rock-cut, cave temples (mostly Hindu but also Jain and buddhist) [...]

Devarayana Durga, 60 Kms away from Bangalore via Dobbspet on the Tumkur road has two Narasimhar temples on a hill. It is a nice drive thru a reserve forest area and looks great (green) after the rains, especially if you take the longer drive via Tumkur.
The Bhoga Narasimha Swamy temple is at a lower level and [...]

The trickle is slowly turning to a deluge. Following Nokia, Motorola and Flextronics, Dell, the world’s largest PC maker has announced plans for a manufacturing plant in Chennai. To be ready within a year, it will come up in Sriperumbudur industrial park, the same place chosen by other technolgy manufacturers. Chennaispot extends a warm welcome [...]

I was very reluctant to add London in this serious. The overseas temples are nowhere near the Indian ones in history, architecture or spirituality. They are just functional and utilitarian. It feels like going to a post office or a grocery store. Of course it could just be me.
Having said that, these temples score over Indian [...]

It may not come as a surprise to those who have had to face their annoying music and dangerous, sometimes fatal bites, it is now official. Chennai is the largest market for mosquito repellants says the Hindu, with a market worth almost 200 crores and the implications of the size of it’s mosquito menace. Sometime earlier [...]