The story of Chittorgarh Fort is one of the timeless stories of Royal India, spanning from the 7^th century till the British Raj. The eventful chronicle of the fort is an unforgettable episode in the Rajput history of Rajasthan. It has been immortalized in the memory of mankind by not only Rajput rulers’ valor but also Rajput women’s spirit of sacrifice. The tales of Rani Padmavati and Rani Karnavati embracing death on a pyre in order to save their dignity from the lecherous invaders like Allauddin Khilji are eternally associated with the bygone days of Chittorgarh Fort.

Inside the timeworn fort complex, one of the largest in India, are some structures including Kirti Stambha and Vijay Stambha that still stand tall. Then an impregnable edifice on a hilltop, Chittorgarh Fort suffered blows of invasion by Allauddin Khilji in 1303, Bahadur Shah of Gujarat in 1534, and Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1567. But the Rajput rulers of the fort neither stooped nor gave in to the sultans of Delhi. Indian Eagle shares some interesting facts of Chittorgarh Fort through the infographic below:

How to reach Chittorgarh Fort 

Chittorgarh can be reached via roadway and air travel from Jaipur and Udaipur in Rajasthan. Both Jaipur and Udaipur are a short domestic flight away from Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. Indian Eagle books the cheapest flights to IGI Airport from the USA. Log on to IndianEagle.com and find the best itinerary from any major US city to New Delhi according to your travel dates. September to March is the best time to visit Chittorgarh.

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India is a land of eternal love stories defying the blows of Time for ages. One such timeless story is that of Meera Bai’s love for Lord Krishna. Born a Rajput princess of Merta in Rajasthan, Meera Bai ended up being a saint in love with her lord. The life of Meera Bai from the magnificence of a palace to the austerity of a hermitage is a manifestation of transcendental love between the Divine and the human, the heaven and the earth, the universe and the soul, the immortal and the mortal as well. Her unconditional, immeasurable, incomparable love for Krishna, who others worship as the Almighty, was honeyed with devotion and spirituality.

She used to spend her time in writing and humming devotional songs in praise of her lord out of ecstasy, which knew no religious bounds and social barriers. Like Rani Padmini and Rani Karnavati, Meera Bai was a bride of Chittor in Mewar province of Rajasthan. If Rani Padmini and Rani Karnavati are emblems of bravery that the Rajputs are known for, she is an embodiment of divine love. Today her devotional songs which evoke numinous feelings are popularly known as ‘Meerabai Poems’ or ‘Meerabai Bhajans’.

Being the greatest devotee of Lord Krishna, Meera Bai deserves a tribute on the occasion of Krishna Janmastami. IndianEagle shares interesting facts from “Meerabai biography” and depicts her life story through the following infographic:

About Merta City

Once upon a kingdom of the Rathore Rajputs, Merta City is a tourist destination in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Both Merta and Mewar were tied in a nuptial knot of Meera Bai and Bhoj Raj. Being the birthplace of Lord Krishna’s devotee, Merta is a holy place for Hindus. It has historical significance too as it was ruled by the Rajputs, the Marathas and the Mughals. Among the tourist attractions of Merta, the museum and the Charbhuja Temple are worth a visit. Pushkar where India’s largest camel fair is held in winter is only 60 km away from Merta.

How to Reach Merta City

Jaipur to Merta distance is only 206 km via road. Merta is an 8-hour drive from Delhi. Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, is a short flight away from IGI Airport New Delhi. IndianEagle books cheap flights to Delhi from USA cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle and Detroit. You can also buy the cheapest air ticket to Jaipur from Delhi while booking your flight to New Delhi International Airport at Indian Eagle.

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Varanasi or Banaras is one of the oldest and holiest cities in the world. One of the most popular pilgrimage sites in India, Varanasi has intrigued foreigners for ages. Often called the Spiritual City of India, Varanasi finds mentions in the scriptures, epics and literature of India. Rabindranath Tagore’s novels – Chokher Bali and Naukadubi – refer to Varanasi as Kashi. Believed to be founded by Lord Shiva, one of the most revered Hindu deities, Varanasi is where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon, “The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of Dharma,” at nearby Sarnath. It is the birthplace of Kabir and Ravidas, the legendary figures of the Bhakti Movement. Guru Nanak founded Sikhism after his return from a trip to Varanasi in 1507.

The city was the center of cultural revival during the regime of Mughal Emperor Akbar. The Hindustani Classical Music owes its ‘Banaras Gharana’ form to this holy city. Varanasi houses India’s largest residential Banaras Hindu University, which evolved from the Center Hindu College, founded by Annie Besant from Bengal. Varanasi has age-old heritage of art and craft including silk cloth weaving, carpet weaving, silver work, ivory work, glass bangle making, etc. Aparajito, one of the films in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, was shot on the ghats and in the lanes of Varanasi.

Winter, the best season to visit Varanasi, has arrived in India. Indian Eagle is up with an illustrative infographic on Varanasi Travel Guide sharing some tips on things to see and things to do in Varanasi India.

Varanasi is a must visit in lifetime. It is a city of many unheard stories and unknown tales. Mark Twain says, “Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.”

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The Indian state of Gujarat facing the Arabian Sea in the west is a land of vibrant culture, rich history, ceaseless development, colorful festivals and imperial grandeur. It was the cradle of Indus Valley Civilization, the trading center of the Maurya and Gupta Empires, part of the Mughal Empire, and the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. Gujarat is globally identified with its handcrafted colorful textiles, Modhera Dance festival, Kite Flying festival, Rann Utsav in the Kutch region, and Sabarmati Ashram. The splendor of sands and the beauty of migratory flamingos in the Rann of Kutch are irresistible pulls of the state fetching in travelers.

Though a kaleidoscopic picture of antiquity in the countryside; Gujarat displays an exemplary model of development in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Enriched with the values and principles of Mahatma Gandhi, the life in Gujarat is eloquently captured by Shraddha Kadakia’s professional camera. The photographs are reflections of the simple life of common man in Gujarat through the prism of her searching eyes. Shraddha Kadakia, a visual communication professional, shares the most expressive photographs of rural life in Gujarat with Indian Eagle from her albums of travel photography in India.

Indian Eagle, a leading USA-based international travel organization booking the best flights to India, brings this exclusive photo story of life of common man in Gujarat in collaboration with Shraddha Kadakia.

About the Contributor

Shraddha Kadakia  is the founder and Managing Director of Just Click Image Making Company in India. With a 5 Years Diploma in Applied Arts and unusual passion for commercial photography in the automobile industry, she founded her entrepreneurial dream at the age of 21. Shraddha has provided visual communication and filming solutions to prestigious brands as Bajaj Auto, Being Human, Maruti, Tata Chroma, and likes in different niches.

Are you a traveler or travel photographer? We would like to publish your travel story and share your experience with our readers. Pitch to us at share@blogbox.indianeagle.com and get featured.  

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Ruskin Bond is one of the most celebrated authors of India with love for nature and passion for travel. His travel books – “Tale of the Open Road”, “All Roads Lead to Ganga”, “Roads to Mussoorie”, and “Rains in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas” – are full of inspiration, which encourages readers for romance and adventure in the thick of nature. Ruskin Bond’s books for kids are collections of his stories of hills and rains, mountains and trains, eulogizing travel to nature. If you believe in his words, “Romance lurks in the most unlikely places,” you should travel the road not taken, walk the less-trodden paths, and visit the offbeat places in India. On his 82nd birthday today, Indian Eagle shares some of the best quotes from Ruskin Bond’s works for travelers.

“It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.”

The quote above is taken from Ruskin Bond’s “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, an anthology of semi-autobiographical stories of his life in the mountains of Mussoorie. The stories give a vivid picture of the years that Ruskin Bond spent at Mussoorie in Himachal Pradesh. – Indian Eagle.

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“I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.”

“People come and go, the mountains remain. Mountains are permanent things. They are stubborn, they refuse to move.”

This beautiful quote about mountains, above, is taken from Ruskin Bond’s “All Roads Lead to Ganga,” a pictorial account of India’s holiest River Ganga and its tributaries in the Himalayas. The book lucidly narrates the author’s travel experience in different places: Shimla, Dehradun and Mussoorie. – Indian Eagle.

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“Live close to nature and you’ll never feel lonely. Don’t drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won’t hack into your computer.”

“The adventure is not in getting somewhere, it’s the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected: it’s the surprise.”

The adventure travel quote above is taken from Ruskin Bond’s “Roads to Mussoorie,” an anthology of stories portraying the author’s affection and nostalgia for the Himalayan valley of Mussoorie in different shades of human emotion. – Indian Eagle.

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“It wouldn’t be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.”

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The poems about life, the poems about death, and the poems about love by Rabindranath Tagore are inspirational poems, which are as eternal as Time. One of the most popular Rabindranath Tagore poems is “Ora Kaj Kore” in Bengali or “They Work” in English. As the title suggests, the poem celebrates the never-fading existence, tireless contribution and unfathomable labor of working people all over the world. The sun rises and sets; one year ends and another begins; tomorrow becomes today and passes into yesterday; empires rise and fall; monuments are built and ruined. But, the global community of working people never ceases to exist. They work endlessly in a cycle, live at the bottom of economic heaps and continue pushing the wheels of civilization forward. They count many times more than the people from other reaches of the socio-economic ladder. Be it a festival or natural calamity, nothing deters them from daily wage. They are never at rest. Men at work are the unsung heroes of the world for generations. Indian Eagle pays tribute to men at work on Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday through the best quotes about life.

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“Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”

“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“We live in the world when we love it.”

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Sunburn Festival in December and Goa Carnival in March are the most popular crowd-pulling attractions of Goa. Monsoon spanning from June to August in India may not be the best time to visit Goa, but it is the best season to visit Goa in India. Solitary beaches, rain-soaked landscape, blooming greenery, monsoon seafood and cheap flights to Goa are some of the reasons to visit this Indian monsoon getaway. Being off season for Goa travel, monsoon is the right time for budget travelers seeking cheaper airfare and accommodation. The beaches and nightlife spots may not teem with revelers in off season, but Goa has its own monsoon attractions which you will miss in other times of the year. If you are still wondering why monsoon is the best season to visit Goa, this infographic by Indian Eagle listing reasons to visit Goa this monsoon is the only answer for you.

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A historic monument is just a tourist attraction to travelers with camera. But, it is something more to the creative mind which seeks inspiration from the beauty of heritage. The heritage of India has equally captured the imagination of photographers, painters and poets for ages. Artists from around the world have painted beautiful pictures of Heritage India by smoothing out the ruggedness of structure with their creativity. In the paintings, the centuries-old monuments of India exude rare aestheticism in contrast to reality. Indian Eagle curated some of the most beautiful paintings of Indian Heritage to celebrate the World Heritage Day with the hope that the historic monuments are best preserved so that the next generations can make paintings as beautiful as these. 

The Taj Mahal, Agra

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The India Gate, Delhi 

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Hampi, Karnataka

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The Qutb Minar, Delhi 

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The Victoria Memorial, Kolkata

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The Gateway of India, Mumbai 

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The Red Fort, Delhi 

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The Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh

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The Hawa Mahal, Jaipur 

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The Shore Temple, Tamil Nadu 

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The Amer Fort, Rajasthan

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The Agra Fort, Agra 

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The Sanchi Stupa, Madhya Pradesh

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The Charminar, Hyderabad 

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The wealth of India was the envy of many in the bygone eras. That is why the Arabs, the Turks, and the Afghans invaded and looted the treasures of kingdoms in different provinces of India. The most of Indian history comprises the stories of invasions and wars, which changed the fate of many, even that of Koh-i-Noor. The most coveted diamond of all times, Koh-i-Noor traveled from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to London through several dynasties including the Kakatiya, the Khilji, the Mughal, the Afghans and the British over a long span of time. The dazzling beauty of this rare diamond was so irresistible that it enslaved the senses of mighty emperors and kings. This infographic by Indian Eagle depicts the eventful journey of Koh-i-Noor from a mine in India to the Tower of London, on Travel Beats.

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Finally, the US President Barack Obama’s itinerary in India is revealed. It has put an end to all speculations about his visit to India as chief guest for the Republic Day Celebration. His much-awaited visit is expected to improve the bilateral ties between India and the United States. Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle Obama, will land in New Delhi on January 25. The infographic by Indian Eagle illustrates the US First Couple’s three-day itinerary in India.

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