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Pic of the Day : Gurgaon, Haryana

Gurgaon was literally a gaon (village) close to delhi until few years ago. due to economic boom and shortage of space in delhi, private developers laid their eyes on this village and transformed it in to a brand new satellite city. most of the buildings are built by one private developer DLF. with its impressive growth Delhi metro took notice and for the first time delhi metro stepped out of delhi and reached to gurgaon. now gurgaon is working on its own metro which will work parallel to delhi metro.

Twoother cities in two different states took the same advantage of their proximity with delhi and developed themselves . other mega cities have taken gurgaon as model and developing their satellite city of their own

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Bonus Pic: DLF gateway. i remembered back in the days this was the only building shaped like a ship on a dusty road on the highway. now this building is surrounded by so many better buildings.

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**Pic of the day: **Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai

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sigh.. those were days, twice i almost drowned doing that

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Pic of the day: Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh
Desi Grand Canyon

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This is the Mausoleum of Emperors Aurangzheb I believe… Really pales in comparison to the Taj, although thats obviously where they drew the inspiration…

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Close but not correct. It is called Bibi ka Maqbara belonged to auranzeb's wife built by her sun azam shah

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there is a famous FORT at this place called gandikota Fort.it was built around 11 or 12th century.

Fort included both temple and masjid

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Yes yes. My mistake. I recall reading about bot long ago. It was built for his wife Rabia Daurani. It stood out not bcs of its beauty but its strange and awkward propotions. A very sad testement to the decline of architecture during that time, bcs if its one thing Auranzheb wasnt known for, it was his patronage of the arts..

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Pic of the Day: Adalaj Step Well (Bawri), Ahmedabad, Gujarat

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Bonus Pic: One can only imagine how it looks like when it gets full up to the brim with blue water.

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The vision, planning, design, skill and effort that must have gone into these structures without aid from modern technology make the modern skyscraper look like child’s play.

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Love Canyons :smiley:

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these things were lost and forgotten for hundreds of years untill a british hunting party re discovered them in early 1800.

I was there few months ago and it is really jaw dropping considering how old they are.

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I am really hating new editor on this forum. its confusing and images dont show up properly.
images from my post number 193 are just showing as text :(

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What river is flowing through the canyon ?

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It is called Pennar River.

its not really a canyon but it looks like one.

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Pic of the day: **Parshvanath Temple, Lodurva, Rajasthan

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