Abbas Razvi ‏عباس

Landscape Architect. Ardent traveller who
enjoys a good single malt whiskey, with a Havana cigar, and of course good company. UC.Berkeley. Hyderabad.

[Abbas Razvi ‏عباس @abbasrazvi]

Final elevation design of home, to be built in Ooty after lockdown. Comments welcome. #Home #Garden #ooty #mountains #nature

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@TA_backup_2nd Lol.

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@TheRightGhose @Ananth_IRAS Aur bahut din bakhi hai Janab. The train and the weather will still be there when you return. In the meantime we shall make sure you are not lonely in Kolkata.

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@Ananth_IRAS @TheRightGhose Beautiful!

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@sanjg2k1 @jawharsircar Less said about these new designs the better.

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@PetroleumMin @HardeepSPuri please note @DgpKarnataka
While the #Diesel price is Rs.98.50 everywhere. #Shell petrol pump on the Bangalore to Hyderabad Highway is selling it Rs.127.87 per liter. Blaming the enormous price difference on international prices. @nitin_gadkari

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Every grain of Himalayan pink salt sold in the world comes from one place.

Pakistan.

Specifically from a mine in Punjab that was discovered 2,350 years ago when Alexander the Great's horses started licking rocks during a rest stop.

Khewra Salt Mine. The second largest salt mine on earth. Its deposits formed 540 to 800 million years ago when a prehistoric sea evaporated inside what would become the mountains of Pakistan.

Alexander's army was marching through in 326 BC. The horses stopped and licked the ground. The soldiers tasted the rocks. Salt.

The greatest accidental discovery in the history of food.

The Mughals mined it. The Sikhs refined it. The British modernised it in 1872 building tunnels still in use today.

Today it stretches 110 square kilometres. 12 stories. 6 underground. 6.687 billion tons of salt reserves remaining. Producing 350,000 tons every year.

Inside its tunnels craftsmen have carved a mosque from salt bricks that still holds prayers. A replica of the Great Wall of China in pink salt. A glowing crystal Sheesh Mahal chamber. An underground lake that reflects pink light off salt walls.

250,000 visitors every year walk through mountains that have been slowly becoming the world's most famous salt for 800 million years.

All of it in Pakistan.

Discovered by a horse.

Used by the world.

Pakistan. 🇵🇰

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@ananyashasau For the last 50 years never had to pay a bribe for a passport. Othe things yes. Passport. No.

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@iamankitpande Fail to understand why the landlord has to worry about the electricity bill? If the tenant does not pay, they cut the power off. The tenent is the only one who suffers. There is nothing for the owner to be stressed about.

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Video taken from the Ooty Gymkhana.

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@supriyasahuias Ma'am This looks like a fire in the hills behind the Golf club. Heavy black smoke.@collrnlg @NilgirisPolice Can you have it checked out. It just started

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@dgaurav7 @NalinisKitchen Thank you. 🙏

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@dgaurav7 @NalinisKitchen Its ready 🙂 With the view.

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@NalinisKitchen @dgaurav7 Thats what my friend Anjana keeps saying. She never had to. She just retired as a DGP police in AP. 😀 We mere mortals have to.

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@dgaurav7 @NalinisKitchen Very true. In Ooty for a homestay license they charge 2 Lakhs. For building permission 4 lakhs.

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@NalinisKitchen 2/2 People who are looking to get away want to be far away from the city. They want tree things
1. Accessibility 2. Security. And 3. Connectivity
If you have these three, you have a good thing going. Best of luck.

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@NalinisKitchen Great idea. But your costing is on the lower side. Each cottage to be comfortable would have to be 400sft including a bathroom. Fencing for one acre would cost you more than 2 lakhs.
Im toying with the same idea. Have 2.7 acres, 30 kms from Ooty. Have found that 1/2

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@BRM643465056273 @drsunita02 Most of them do.😀

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@BRM643465056273 @drsunita02 Agree about the whims of the clients. I spent 2 hours along with my team, listening to the husband and wife discussing where to plant one tree....They had already spent two hours a few days back, and had identified the spot with my architect. Then again....😁😁

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@BjornQuixote One only has to see what remains of the Mughal Royal family, and how they survive today. From ruling the Subcontinent a few hundred years ago, to abject poverty. Its entirely possible this gentleman is the decendent of Jagat Seth. Do post some photos of the furniture.

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@iamharmeetK @ReshmiDG @swapan55 A State DGP ranks the same as a Joint Secretary GOI, and a LT. General at No. 25. A State MLA comes at 30. A DGP thus ranks higher.