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Shivpuri:Far from the madding crowd-Travelogue Day 3
Hyacinth’s relentless march in Sakhya Sagar Shivpuri: Shivpuri’s lifeline, the mesmerising Sakhya Sagar which is today a part of select 51 wetlands of India, is facing a menace of deadly water hyacinth. Hyacinth has taken over the Sagar’s banks and is spreading at a rapid pace from all sides. In fact, hyacinth has completely choked the main flow of the…
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Shivpuri:Far from the madding crowd-Travelogue Day 2
George Castle, front view Shivpuri: Credit for Shivpuri’s development goes to Maharaja Madho Rao Scindia (1876 –1925). In the first decade of the 20th century he developed massive infrastructure in the region’s deciduous forests — where trees lose/ shed their leaves every year — to facilitate his and his cronies hunting expeditions. In the year 1911 when the Swadeshi movement…
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Shivpuri:Far from the madding crowd-Travelogue Day 1
Sakhya Sagar Shivpuri: About 480 km from Delhi and 120 km from Gwalior on Agra-Mumbai highway is Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. The city and the district are famous for man made water bodies and small undulating hills of seamless deciduous forests which come alive during the monsoons. Shivpuri has witnessed a long procession of rulers — Mughals, Marathas, Rajputs of…
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