“Would you like to come to some villages around Chamba?” a friend asked. I happily said yes. He wanted to visit the kin of former servants of his family and bring them gifts before Diwali. After buying boxes of sweets and drawing money from an ATM, three of us set off from Mussoorie. The air […]
Modi Govt Building Highways to Connect the Chota Char Dham (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri, Gangotri)
India’s highways ministry led by PM Modi’s BJP central government is planning to connect the Hindu 4 small abodes pilgrimage (Chota Char Dham Yatra) in the Himalayas with 889 km of disaster-proof 2-lane roads. The Chota Char Dham Yatra is made of the 4 popular and sacred Hindu temples called Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. […]