Sunday, December 26, 2010

Lonavla

Lonavla or Lonavale (Marathi: लोणावळा)

is a city and a hill station Municipal Council in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is about 64 km away from the city of Pune, 96 km away from the city Mumbai. It is famous throughout India for the hard candy sweet known as chikki and is also a major stop on the rail line connecting Mumbai and Pune.For Mumbai suburbs local trains are available from Karjat It is also an important town on the Mumbai-Pune road link. Both the Mumbai-Pune Expressway as well as the Mumbai-Pune highway pass through Lonavla. Lonavla comes to life during the monsoon season as the countryside turns lush green with waterfalls and ponds

Places of Interest

Rajmachi Point

Rajmachi Point is located about 6.5 km from Lonavla. This point commands a view of Shivaji's famous fort, Rajmachi (Royal terrakouioce) and the surrounding valley. Regular State Transport buses ply between Rajmachi Point and Lonavla from the State Transport Bus Stand. The famous Vaghjai Dari is also located here.
Ryewood Park & Shivaji Udyan
This is an extensive garden situated in Lonavla. The garden covers a lot of ground and it is full of tall trees. There is an old Shiva temple in the park. The garden has plenty of place for children to play.

Valvan Dam

Valvan Dam has a garden at its foot, and is a popular evening spot 2 km from the town. The dam supplies water to the Khopoli power station at the foothills of the Sahyadris for generating electricity. The Kundali River feeds into the dam's reservoir.

Lonavla Lake

Lonavla Lake is surrounded by natural scenery, about 1.6 km from the town. The lake dries up during the winter months.

Duke's Nose

Duke's Nose stands 12 km from Lonavla, clearly visible from the highway while driving towards Mumbai. This landmark in Khandala is popular with hikers. The cliff owes its name to the Duke of Wellington, whose ample nose it resembles.

Tiger's Leap

Tiger's Leap is a cliff-top with a sheer drop of over 650 m, giving an extensive view. Buses are available up to I.N.S. Shivaji and the remaining distance of about 1.6 km has to be covered on foot.

Karla Caves

Karla caves [1], located near Lonavla, is a complex of cave shrines built by Buddhist monks around 3rd to 2nd century B.C.
I.N.S. Shivaji
A Naval Engineering Training Base.
Lohagad Fort
A robust climb of about 11.2 km from Malavali Railway Station takes you to the 'Iron Fort', once a formidable battle-station of Shivaji. The fort commands a view of the surrounding hills and hamlets.

Bushy Dam

A waterfall near the dam is a popular spot between Lonavla and I.N.S. Shivaji. Buses running on the I.N.S. Shivaji Road stop here.

Lion's Point

Scenic point midway between Bhushi Dam and Aamby Valley .

Tungarli Lake and Dam

This lake and Dam come to life during the Monsoon season, where youth climb the mountain top to the Dam. This dam was built during the British era and features a serene surrounding.

Shooting Point

Another scenic point in the town of Khandala (Bazaar peth), which provides magnificent view of the Rajmachi Fort and the valley. Also the home for the St. Mary's villa.


Source : Lonavla Wiki Click

Friday, December 24, 2010

Tron Legacy Official Trailer 3 [HD]

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LEVITATING - STONES

INCREDIBLE 'LEVITATING - STONES' IN A DARGAH NEAR PUNE

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I Found this piece of this message from one of my mailbox , Please read it fully.

I had a posting in Pune (Maharashtra) during 1990-93, occupying there an enormous 100 year old residential bungalow in which Sir Shah Nawaz Khan Bhutto,CIE,OBE,KIH , father of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had once lived.

Though holder of a Master's degree in Physics -my Ph.D. was in Commerce- and I was very science-minded, I always had a curiosity about the supernatural. Someone told me about the mystery of the levitating stones in a dargah close to Pune, soon after I had settled down there.

So, one day, with my family I drove from Pune to the village called Khed Shivapur, 16 miles south of Pune, bang on the Pune-Satara road, in which the dargah is located. The dargah is named after the Pir called Kamarali Darvesh, buried there about 700 years back. He was a highly spiritual person, and there is an annual Urs every May when both Muslims and Hindus congregate.
src : Indian History
It is a 700 year-old beautifully built dargah with white makrana marble, and has black marble inlay of Koranic texts running all around it at a height. Women are not supposed to enter within the Kamarali Darvesh dargah as the Pir was a bachelor, but this is observed often in the breach. There is a permanently lit lamp inside the mausoleum. Within the compound and outside the dargah-edifice proper, in the open space in-between, lie two almost round stones which are fairly huge and heavy. To me they looked like stones chiselled by man out of some strong or heavy rocks.Unfortunately, clear facts are not available, and they could well have been naturally occurring stones also.

The bigger stone is perhaps 18 inches in diameter and is said to weigh roughly 140 lbs. The smaller stone is perhaps around 14 inches in diameter and is said to weigh about 100 lbs. ( It's so sad that these simple physical properties have not been recorded and kept ). No single person can lift any of the stones from the ground with all the ten fingers, heavy indeed as they are.

How do the stones 'levitate'? The word 'levitate' is perhaps a misnomer because they do not go up from the ground by themselves. Then, what is the miracle about the stones? My younger son of about 10 years and I were keen participants in the mystery-act. Any eleven males (including boys) could stand around the big stone lying on the ground. Each person has to simply bend down and 'gently' touch the stone with just one index finger. The touching has to be in the bottom half, not the top portion of the stone. After the eleven people thus touch the stone, all of them have to utter, in unison and loudly, the expression, "Kamarali Darvesh". My experience was incredible. The stone rises up to eight feet before falling to the ground. While the stone was rising, your index finger feels very light and there is no pressure on it. It was as if some spiritual force through the eleven of us was guiding the stone to rise up. Why does it fall after going up eight feet or so? It is because our finger can no longer touch it above that height. This miracle, it is said, does not work with women, as the Kamarali baba was a bachelor.

With the smaller heavy stone, you require nine males only to repeat this experiment. The stones move anti-gravity-wise and a physics man like me was simply aghast at this miracle. Thereafter, I have gone to the dargah many many times with my visiting guests and friends to show the miracle to them, every time participating in it.

Many persons from different parts of India and some foreigners too could be spotted every time you go to the dargah. It is seldom that you run out of eleven males, and when this happens a few muslim villagers hanging around there, immediately come to your help. The stones do not discriminate against religion for they would go up whether the person touching them is Hindu, Muslim or Christian. They seem to discriminate against women only!

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Christmas Time

Hi Friends,


Here's wishing you all the joys of the season. Wish you and your family a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Another day, another month, another year,
Another smile, another tear, another winter,
A summer too, But there will never be another you!
May lovely, happy times decorate this time of the season.
May warm, special memories brighten your new year.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Trips

Lonavala and Khandala

Ooty and Mudumalai Trip!!!!!

Trip to Shirdi

Hi All,

It was nice pleasant journey to Shirdi Sai Baba during my official visit to Pune.

I am sharing some of my pictures taken during travelling to Shirdi and Shani Singhnapur.

Regards
Ajay Pandey

Morning SunRise



Garden View - ON Highway











These are the sample pics taken!!!!!!!
More to be published....

God Named Sachin

Ramesh was the ultimate CRICKET fan. He had all the videos and went to all the
matches. Unfortunately, he passed away and went up to heaven. When he arrived
at the gates of heaven he came across YAMARAJ.


"Greetings Ramesh, we have been expecting you” YAMARAJ said. Ramesh
asked YAMARAJ... “What is heaven like then?” YAMARAJ replied “All the
greats are here, Bradman, Marshall, Wesley Hall, Larwood and
they all play CRICKET here on the replicas of the great Stadiums.”
“Bradman bating against Larwood ??? This is my idea of heaven!” Ramesh exclaimed.

“Exactly!” YAMARAJ replied.

Ramesh settled into heaven very quickly. He loved watching the matches.
Cricket was all he might have hoped for  until he found something that disturbed him.
One day saw a net session in which a batsman was practicing his batting skills.
He could not believe what he saw! It looked as if the batsman was wearing
helmet,pads just like Sachin Tendulkar’s. And the batting style was exactly the
same as his hero's. Ramesh was confused.

After some nights of troubled sleep he went to see YAMARAJ about what he
had seen that day. He described the scene he had seen and protested.. “But
Sachin Tendulkar is not dead! How can he be here?”

YAMARAJ looked around to make sure nobody was listening and whispered to
Ramesh. “Keep this quiet as I could get into trouble with the Big man for
telling you this..”

YAMA glanced around some more...

You saw that batsman... that was God... he thinks he is Sachin Tendulkar! “

Source : Indian Express
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