Galna Fort It is a fort located in malegaon taluka Galna – गाळणा किल्ला was a major fort in the south Khandesh area of Maharashtra, India. This fort was an important fort on the Burhanpur -Surat trade route. This is…

Mankeshwar temple (Marathi: माणकेश्वर मंदिर) is an ancient Shiva temple. The temple is located adjacent to the Mumbai-Agra National Highway in the village Zodage in Nashik District of Maharashtra, India. Zodage is located 128Km from Nashik. History On Road It…

History Shrivardhan is one of the oldest towns in Maharashtra. It is the town of Peshwas. The Statue of Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath is there in Shrivardhan. The Bhat Deshmukhs of Shrivardhan – later popularly known as Peshwas – witnessed the…

History of Malvan city! Why named Malvan? In numerous old books and articles, some reference happens as follows To a great extent established coconut trees (Frantic) framed a grove(wan), so it was named madwan and after certain years it became…

Some of the information available at this fort suggests that the fort could have been built 2000 years ago. The caves and the carvings in the Kaundinyeshwar temple stand as proof of the same. Previously known as Kondhana, the fort…

In the Indian state of Kerala Alappuzha is a Land Mark between the broad Arabian Sea and a network of rivers flowing into it. In the early first decade of the 20th Century the then Viceroy of the Indian Empire,…

Rains: Every corner of India tells a monsoon story The etymology of the word monsoon is not wholly certain. The English monsoon came from Portuguese monção ultimately from Arabic موسم (mawsim, “season”), “perhaps partly via early modern Dutch monson”. Rains…