Edvard Munch, 1863-1944, the Norwegian expressionist painter, steadily gained popularity among artists and art connoisseurs mostly after his death. Like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Monet’s Waterlilies, Raja Ravi Verma’s Saraswati, The Scream is of Edvard Much’s. The Scream is a reference…
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Confit in Cooking
French cooking is arty, but technical, too. How come the cooking of food has become so arty, technical, and complex? Many things of France and French are such. Remember a French movie? Amour? Amour is worth watching like confit meat…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Nilgiri Tahr
Goat is an agile, hollow-horned ruminant of the family Bovidae. It is closely related to sheep, native to rocky and mountainous regions. Goats are widely distributed wherever they are domesticated, and there are different varieties of them. In astronomy and astrology,…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Manjur
Ooty the Queen of Hills in the Indian subcontinent and the Nilgiris district in south India has many places of interest to travel. One of the places is Manjur. Manjur is one of the scenic towns in India located in…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: River Moyar (Mayar)
River Moyar (Mayar) is an east flowing river that originates in the Mudumalai, Bandipur, and Wayanad National Parks in the Western Ghats of peninsular India. It drains the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu and borders with Karnataka in southern India….
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Kalhatti Ghat Road, 36 Hairpin Bends
Ooty, the Queen of Hills in the Indian subcontinent, in the Nilgiris district is connected through five ghat roads. Most of the Nilgiris district is located in the Nilgiri Hills, which is part of the Western Ghats. The ghats roads…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: The Ghat Roads
Ooty, Kotagiri, Coonoor, and the other towns and villages in the Nilgiris district are connected to the surrounding towns of Tamil Nadu, and the states of Kerala and Karnataka, in southern Indian through five ghat roads. Most of the Nilgiris…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Lovedale Railway Station, Nilgiri Mountain Railway
Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Lovedale Railway Station, Nilgiri Mountain Railway Lovedale is neither a village nor a town located in the outer part of Ooty, the Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India. Lovedale is one of the highest places above mean sea…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Nilgiri Mountain Railway
Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Nilgiri Mountain Railway Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiris and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu in southern India is a metre gauge railway line (1,000 mm, 3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) built during the British colonial era in 1908. Nilgiris Mountain Railways…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Pykara, Pykara Lake, Pykara Waterfalls, Pykara Bridge
Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Pykara, Pykara Lake, Pykara Waterfalls, Pykara Bridge Pykara Lake and Pykara Waterfalls are two of the many important places of interest in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu in southern India, and are close to the…
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