Through My Lens

It was the beginning of the month of Dec 2014 and for me it has never been a travel time since I never used to go for a leisure travel during this time of an year. My time of travel usually is December end of the year during Christmas. But this time around I had the opportunity and this came from none other than my wife. She has to go for an official training to Pune for some two days and I found this to be an opportunity to see Pune for the first time. I started seeing trip advisor for the places that can be seen in this place and I got the glimpse of Aga Khan Palace. I started searching for what is there that needs to be seen in this palace and a bunch of history with the freedom struggle was there in store to see and understand in this palace. Aga Khan Palace,Pune I was in Pune in the first week and on 5 th Dec 2014, I started my journey in the morning towards this historic palace. As I reached and entered the palace I was welcomed by the sprawling garden in front of the p...

I have been wondering since my school days when we used to study history and read words like castle and wonder at that time what’s this all about. Why the structure of some ancient monument in the west looks different from the monuments in India. As we grew I gradually got to know it’s the architecture followed in different parts of the world. In west the structure of the Castle is somewhat built in a very unique style which can’t be seen in this part of the world. Sometime in 2010, one of my friends had told that there is a palace in Bangalore which looks like a castle and which we call as the Bangalore Palace. From that time I have been trying to visit this palace and it took me almost some 4-5 years for me to get the most valuable time to explore this magnificent Palace. It was on the May Day, 1st of May 2015, when I was on a holiday that I decided to go to this Castle called Bangalore Palace. At around 10.30 am I embarked on my journey towards the palace and reached there ar...