Journeysmatter

Month: September 2015

  • World Tourism Day 2015

    World Tourism Day 2015

    Celebrating World Tourism Day 2015

  • Experiencing Varanasi……Part 3

    Experiencing Varanasi……Part 3

    Varanasi continues to hold your attention. It just urges you to keep walking and looking.

  • Experiencing Varanasi……Part 2

    Experiencing Varanasi……Part 2

    The Varanasi sojourn continues and the 7Kms stretch of Ghats will keep pulling you in like a Magnet. There are a world of things to do in this 7Kms arc….

  • Experiencing Varanasi…..Part 1

    Experiencing Varanasi…..Part 1

    “Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together”………….Mark Twain Varanasi, also known as Benaras and Kashi as the locals lovingly call it, is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Since 2014, It is being represented in Parliament by…

  • Odisha – Jewel of India’s east

    Odisha – Jewel of India’s east

    Bande Utkala Janani……I adore Thee, O! Mother Utkal….. Words written by Kantakabi Laxmikanta Mohapatra, when Odisha (www.odisha.gov.in) (Orissa till 2011) became independent on the 1st of April 1936. Odisha’s etymology is “Odda Visaya” dating back to 1025 AD. It was historically also known as Kalinga which was conquered by Emperor Ashoka and also led him…