Bhangarh - The Haunted ruined town

There are places in this world and then there are really weird and fascinating places in this world. One of them is a ruined town in India in the state of Rajasthan, which has baffled historians and people alike and is a good place for ghost hunters to explore.

So the location for this place is in the Rajgarh Municipality in the Alwar District within the state of Rajasthan in India. The closest famous city to it is Jaipur and is accessible by a number of roads.

This place is really cool, for people from all walks of life. It is in fact filled with beautifully carved temples, havelis and the main palace of Madho Singh, the younger brother of Man Singh, who was a General in Akbar's army. The decline of Bhangarh started when Madho Singh's son Chattr Singh took over the reins.

So why is this place haunted? There are two legends behind it.

One - The town was blessed by a Guru named Balu Nath, but only on one condition that the palace of the king should not cast a shadow on his Holy Retreat, the moment it does, his curse will materialize and the town will no longer be habitable. Well people say, Chattr Singh, son of Madho Singh, didn't pay any heed to the Guru's advice and the day the palace cast a shadow on the Guru's retreat, the town started declining. So till date the curse haunts the town.

Two - The second myth, which actually doesn't sound convincing to me(if Myths were convincing, they would be called as Myths), is that a Tantrik was in love with the princess of Bhangarh, and he tried to lure her with black magic by giving her enchanted oil. But the princess knew this beforehand so she poured the oil on the ground, it turned into a boulder, that boulder in turn crushed the tantrik, before dying he cursed the town and soon after that the princess also died and the town perished.

Now the funniest part is that the Archaeological Survey of India also considers this to be a haunted place and they believe there are ghosts inside the ruins, that is the reason why they have put up a notice saying that it is prohibited to be inside Bhangarh from Sunset to Sunrise. Unbelievable. Please look at the picture below.

The Stone inscription clearly warns about the prohibition.

I am not sure how much of this is true and why ASI also has an office 1 KM away from the actual site, but then something is really fascinating about this place and I really want to explore this once in my life, and see if there is really something fishy about this place.

Check out the 360 degree panoramic view of the Bhangarh site at the link below. http://www.360cities.net/image/bhangarh-the-most-haunted-place-in-india#98.60,8.10,70.0

Mumma's Love Dabba...:D

Staying away from home has its pros and cons. And I am sure many people will agree that there are many cons than pros, at least for me. Missing your family and specially your Mom is one of them.

But yesterday was one of the best days of my life when I received something really good from my both my mothers. As my mom's call it...Love Dabba.

A box full of sweets, Kaju Katri...my favorite..wow I could actually feel both my moms hugging me and kissing me at the same time when I had the first bite. And believe me, this was the most amazing feeling I have ever had.

Love you both my mummy's....Muaaaaaaaaahhhhh

The Shawshank Redemption......A must watch

I must say that in the history of cinema, never has been such an excellent piece of work made. One of the finest, super finest movies I have ever seen till date. Amazing performance by Tim Robbins and above all one of the finest actors, Morgan Freeman.

The movie starts with Tim Robbins who plays the character of Andy Dufresne being convicted for murder of his wife based on circumstantial evidence. Though throughout the movie, he maintains he was innocent and didn't kill his wife, it is shown in the movie that he did went ahead with a gun in his hand, with an intention to kill both his wife and her lover.

However, that is not what the movie is all about. It explores the deep reminisces of the human mind and how people become psychologically conditioned to the situation they are in for such a long time.

When Andy gets convicted for a double life sentence for the murder of his wife, he meets "Red" (Morgan Freeman) and his gang within the Shawshank State Prison. After going through a couple of rough patches with their fellow inmates, he finally overcomes them when he has the support of the warden in exchange for the use of his financial planning skills to file tax returns for the prison staff and also to siphon off money for the warden.

Soon, Andy becomes indispensable to the prison system and 20 years fly by. Within these 20 years, Red has been rejected twice for parole and another oldie hangs himself because he couldn't cope up with the outside world, a fact which is depicted so nicely in the movie about the human mind becoming conditioned to a particular atmosphere.

During one of the conversation, Red warns Andy that HOPE is a dangerous thing and this word should not be uttered by him for his lifetime in the prison. The twist comes over here when Andy actually escapes from the prison one day, by just using the pen hammer, which Andy had smuggled for him within the prison with the help of "Red". And not only does he escape, he also exposes the corrupt warden and the security guard at the prison, while also amassing the enormous amount of money he had helped the warden siphon off from the prison by assuming a false identity and then escaping to Mexico to avoid the law of the land.

The title of the movie is "Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you Free". And the movie lives to this title. Every inch of the film on which this movie was made has justified this very title and if you want to experience the same feeling, grab a DVD and watch this movie at least once in your life time. Absolutely Recommended

Learnt something new.

As a sourcing consultant, I do my due diligence of research for the categories that I am working on and I happened to read a couple of pages about the science behind the requirement of tires for cars. I learnt an interesting thing about something called as the aspect ratio of the tire. It is defined as the distance between the rim and the topmost edge of the tire and it is always expressed as a percentage of the width of the tire. That is the reason why it is called as Aspect ratio. Not this gives us how thick the tire is and how it can effectively lead to greater stability for the vehicle. The thumb rule is, higher the aspect ration, lower the stability while maneuvering through sharp edges and turns and the opposite is true as well. That is why, you will see most of the BMW's, Merc's and high end super car tires with lower aspect ratio. But the trade off comes at the cost of lower air buoyancy, which is actually the counter pressure exerted by the tire from the ground upwards which basically provides the fluidity to the vehicle to move forward. No wonder, Super cars are nick named as gas guzzlers. Now Ain't that interesting. Share it guys Knowledge Shared is Knowledge Earned.