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    My favorite artworks from European Museums

    My favorite artworks from European Museums

    Gandhara Art in Humboldt Forum: Life of Lord Buddha

    Gandhara Art in Humboldt Forum: Life of Lord Buddha

    Jewish Heroes Square in Krakow, Poland

    Jewish Heroes Square in Krakow, Poland

    Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

    Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

    Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

    Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

    The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

    The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

    Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

    Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

    Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

    Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

    St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

    St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

    Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

    Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

    Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

    Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

    The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

    The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

    The Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest

    St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

    St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

    The Residence Fountain in Salzburg: Oundof Music

    The Residence Fountain in Salzburg: Oundof Music

    Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

    Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

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    Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

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      My favorite artworks from European Museums

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      Gandhara Art in Humboldt Forum: Life of Lord Buddha

      Gandhara Art in Humboldt Forum: Life of Lord Buddha

      Jewish Heroes Square in Krakow, Poland

      Jewish Heroes Square in Krakow, Poland

      Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

      Block no. 4 in Auschwitz concentration camp

      Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

      Ottoman tent in Princess Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland

      The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

      The Steam Engine Building, Potsdam, Germany

      Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

      Assyrian human-headed winged bull from Nimrud; 9th cent. BCE; Pergamon Museum, Berlin

      Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

      Catacombs in St Peter’s Abbey Salzburg, Austria

      St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

      St Nicholas Church in #Leipzeg, #Germany

      Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

      Gloriette, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna,Austria

      Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

      Matthias Church on Buda Castle Hill, Budapest

      The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

      The Neptune fountain in Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria

      The Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest

      St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

      St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, Austria

      The Residence Fountain in Salzburg: Oundof Music

      The Residence Fountain in Salzburg: Oundof Music

      Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

      Sultana Daku and Raj Bhawan of Nainital

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      Bijai Mandal – in Jahanpanah, the 4th medieval city of Delhi

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      Jahanpanah the fourth medieval city of Delhi was built in 1326–1327 by Muhammad bin Tughlaq (1321–51) to address the constant threat of the Mongols.
      It was a fortified city of Jahanpanah (meaning in Persian: “Refuge of the World”)
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      Today all we have are descriptions by the Moroccon traveller Ibn Batuta who lived in Delhi during Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s reign.

      Sultan Muhammad’s palace had three gates, each furnished with a flurry of officials presided over by marshals in caps of gold plumed with peacock feathers. The first gate was also home to the executioners. The second led into a large mashwar, or audience chamber. “The third door,” continued Ibn Battuta, “opens into the immense and vast hall called Hazar Ustun, which means [in Persian] ‘a thousand pillars.’ The pillars are of painted wood and support a wooden roof, most exquisitely carved…. It is in this hall that the sultan sits for public audience.”
      (Tim McIntosh in http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/a.tangerine.in.delhi.htm/) i will blog on qasr e hazar sutun separately so its just a mention here.
      The famed treasure house in this palace which housed tge treasures captured by the Sultan from his conquests as well as taxes from citizens is now a pile of dirt. Locals say they used to discover gold coins till recently

      There used to wells filled with treasures in this area. Today there is dirt and broken beer bottles by people who come here to have fun taking advantage of the isolation.

      Sir Syed calls this the Badi Manzil. It is an octagonal building diameter 38’3″ and 20’high,built of rubble with steeply sloping sides,the corners being strengthened by dressed stones. At each of its four cardinal points there is a doorway. On the roof of reached by some very stinky and dirty stairs at the SW corner are 3 circular holes diameter 1’5″ which look as if a cover was fitted in tgem. alAccording to Sir Syed supported a structure,probably a baradari crowning the Mandal. They are filled with dirt today.
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      The purpose of the Mandal is unclear and according to Akhbarul aakhyar it was a bastion (burj) of the fort of Jahanpanah and that it was from this strange architectural wonder that the Sultan inspected his troops.

      The entire structure is built on a raised platform, surmounted by another higher platform. Some of the rooms are inaccessible to the public and could possibly have been the living quarters of the Sultan. .
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      Its an important piece of history lying in utter neglect, state of disrepair and isolation.
      There is an unknown tomb from probably tge Lodi era which is the first thing that greets you as you enter the fabled city.
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      When we went there, it was a public holiday and there were groups of boys chilling out there including boys of a lical band. They said that here they got privacy to eat and drink as they pleased.

      It is also home to the dargah of sufi saint called Sheikh Hasan Tahir, accompanied by several other graves around it.
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      And what looks to be the remains of a madarsa opposite it
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      But for me the most telling tale of the apathy of the government towards this important witness to medieval history was the tin box tucked into its boundary by locals
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      Mera kuchh samaan tumhare paas hai!

      Location : Kalu Sarai Village near IIT, New Delhi
      earest Metro : Hauz Khas

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