This is the Konark horse found inside the Konark temple campus. Konark was built during Narasimha Deva I, who was a great military genius.
In this sculpture you can see a horse is crushing a soldier probably a Yavana from Bengal Sultanate whom Narasimha thrashed in war.
This is the state emblem of Odisha but without the soldier beneath. Earlier Ashokan pillar was the state emblem but in 1964 it was changed to this one.
When you see a home built in the vernacular traditions of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu or Rajasthan, nobody has to tell you where it is from. The materials, the roof form, the courtyard logic, the way the building sits in its climate, they speak for themselves. That is the result of communities that chose to refine what they already had rather than replace it.
Most of Africa shares the same tropical climate as southern India. The same heat, the same humidity, the same need for shade, ventilation and passive cooling. Yet we keep building homes that look inspired by everywhere but belong nowhere. We import materials our soil already provides. We install air conditioning our architecture should have made unnecessary. We build for appearances and pay for it in electricity bills, in maintenance costs, in buildings that fight their own environment.
This is Nithin Rao’s residence, Basavangudi, Bangalore. One of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. The client wanted a home that connected him to where he grew up. Praangana Earthen Architecture responded with Mangalore clay tile roofs, exposed laterite masonry, adobe block walls, Atangudi tile borders, timber trusses and a central courtyard for passive ventilation. No air conditioning. The building manages its own climate through the intelligence of how it was assembled.
The laterite walls are the same material the region has quarried for centuries. Porous, naturally cool, and stronger with age.
This is not nostalgia. This is efficiency.
Praangana Earthen Architecture | Basavangudi, Bangalore, Karnataka 🇮🇳 | 3,310 sq ft | 2024
More images from this home are in the comments.
“I renewed Apollo Hospital’s license for 30 years. Belle Vue Hospital used to touch my feet for appointments.”
~ Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee is upset that these hospitals refused to issue a fake medical certificate to Abhishek Banerjee.
Only solution for India 🇮🇳 is Singapore like strict rule of law in India🗿🔥
The moment there is instant punishment for your actions like fines/arrest possibility or jail term due to nearby policemen, you will see lot of well behaved citizens in India
Only solution for India 🇮🇳 is Singapore like strict rule of law in India🗿🔥
The moment there is instant punishment for your actions like fines/arrest possibility or jail term due to nearby policemen, you will see lot of well behaved citizens in India
How do we call this a low trust society
when lakhs of people at airports every single day
pick ONLY their own luggage from a pile of black suitcases?
They can pick anyone they want 😀
BIHARI RAJPUT 🔱
In Bihar in 1936, a Rajput hunter shot a wild boar that later ran into a mosque and died inside. The incident angered a group of Muslims, who detained the Rajput man inside the mosque and gave him an ultimatum—either slaughter a cow or face death.
A single uranium fuel pellet (about the size of a fingertip) contains as much energy as roughly 1 ton of coal, 149 gallons of oil, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas.