...introducing the dramatic centerpiece of late-Mughal garden pavilion in the VMFA’s South Asian collection as a fragmentary used to carry lots of weight, the curator Doctor. Rice brings the magnificent piece into the sight of contemporary art world by presenting it out of the original context of formal garden setting and apart from the architecture ensemble. It gives the audience the chance to do a structure analysis by looking closely to the white marble surfaces and the refined decoration under the distinct context, differentiating from the original aristocratic garden complex. Doctor. Rice explained the three kinds of gardens briefly in Mughal India, the palace garden, garden for pleasure, and the tomb garden. The magnificent rectangular walled garden was built near riverfront not only to appreciate the beauty of the Mother Nature by including the river as part of the aesthetics, but also to draw out the “plan of assembly”, which Doctor. Rice proposes that the physical or three-dimensional representation of the tomb gardens might be a way for the emperors, especially Akbar, to deifying himself and to build the image of mystic diagram. He also presents the timeline of Mughal Empire, from early Babur, who defeated Muslim of Delhi (Sutan), Humayun’s tomb during the great Mughal period, which the economic changes and artistic innovations took place, to Akbar who built the garden from the ground, which was unusual for the...
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...During last May, I was at home to spend my weekend with my family at my village. Due to power failure, I came out of my home in search of shadowy trees. I reached a shadowy place which was comfortable. When I was walking towards that place I noticed that it was very hot to bear it. I sat silently. Due to loneliness, my mind was wandering in many thoughts and started thinking that if Pakistani rulers were asked to walk in such hot sunshine what they will feel. They will be no more if they walked in such a hot season even a mile because they never face such kind of torture. If they escaped they will solve the issue of power. My eyes were not fixed at one place they were turning one direction to another. I noticed still people were working in this hot day. They were reaping wheat. These people used to reap wheat to collect grain for their food. People of southern Punjab mostly do this. Usually, they spread all over the Punjab to collect grain. Mostly male members move to far off places and females use to collect grain from nearer places. Just imagine, sun is on climax almost burning all things. Humans, animal, birds, and all creatures of Allah are absent. You are unable to collect courage to move a single step from shadowy place and comfort of electric air conditioners is no more with you because in that sort of weather it stops working, how difficult is to work. But these courageous people are working. There is no person to compel them to work but it is only the belly which forced...
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...A good place to start is understanding what Brooks Bond imagines itself to be. Having celebrity sponsors – Zakir Hussain, Saif Ali Khan, Madhuri Dixit – isn’t anything new or surprising for a large, cross-national brand. Usually these celebrities are used to invoke either a social or sensual aura, given their fame and beauty. Brooks Bond, however, uses its ambassadors to curate a sense of aristocracy, regality, and sophistication. Start with the description of Taj Mahal on the company’s website. Saif Ali Khan isn’t an actor or model first. He is “the nawab” – evoking the sense of Mughal royalty that Brooks Bond wishes to connect with its tea. This is a theme Gautam Bhadra speaks extensively about in his document. Most early advertisements for both Lipton and Brooks Bond (the two dominant competitors) appealed to a sense of sophistication and high fashion – inserting advertisements that suggested tea was a staple of the national elite. (The ITMEB later tried to spark a campaign depicting tea as an institution of national concern, transcending class, caste, religion, and wealth – but this wasn’t as widely embraced by tea companies themselves). Of course the idea that “tea is a connoisseur’s choice” hasn’t died yet. This was Lipton then: And this is Brooks Bond’s official vision: “Our vision is to convert tea lovers into tea connoisseurs. To this end, Taj Mahal conducts tea appreciation workshops known as “Taj Tea Trails”. Each session takes you on a fascinating tea...
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...6 Mughal Gardens to Visit During Kashmir TripConstructing Mughal Gardens was the most beloved pastime of the Mughal imperials. Mughal Gardens in Srinagar are basically the gardens that were built during the reign on Mughal Emperors. Influenced heavily by the concept of Persian Gardens or the charbagh, these gardens drew heavily upon Persian style of architecture. The common features that all Mughal Gardens share is the rectilinear layouts within the walled structure with canals, fountains, pools of running water and several species of shade providing trees , flowers, fruits and aromatic grasses. No other emperor is credited with taking the garden architecture and floral designs to the height as Shah Jahan the pinnacle of which was reached when he constructed the sprawling funeral paradise Taj Mahal in Agra to commemorate his beloved wife Mumtaj Mahal. But in this write up we are not going to talk about the Taj Mahal. Instead we’ll focus on some of the other but equally impressive Mughal Gardens in Kashmir which the Mughal adopted as their summer capital. So read on about the top Mughal Gardens in Kashmir that you must visit if you are planning your tours to Kashmir. Nishat Bagh A garden of bliss, a garden of joy, a garden of delight, whatever one chooses to call it, Nishat Bagh in Srinagar is exceptionally beautiful in every sense of the word. If one looks back in the pages of history, the Mughal era is likely to feel the most dominating one in Kashmir. After dethroning the...
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...The Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, built it and it is one example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian and Indian architectural styles. It was built on the south wall of Agra and was constructed using materials from all over India and Asia. Masons, stonecutters, inlayers, carvers, painters, calligraphers, dome-builders and artisans were summoned from the whole of the empire, Central Asia, and Iran. The translucent white marble was brought from Makrana, Rajasthan, the jasper from Punjab, jade and crystal from China. The turquoise was from Tibet and the Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, while the sapphire came from Sri Lanka and the carnelian from Arabia. In all, twenty eight types of precious and semi-precious stones were inlaid into the white marble. You can see these inlaid stones on the outside and inside of the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal has symmetry in the way it was built, it has cross-axial and bilateral symmetry. There are arches that are all symmetrically placed to each other. Above the arches there are verses from the Quran were inscribed in calligraphy as well as other areas of the complex. There are minarets all around the corners of the building that are also symmetrically placed, they are 40 meters tall and are cylindrical columns with beveled angles. One prominent motif on the Taj Mahal is the lotus. It...
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... Table of Contents Acknowledgements - 3 - Introduction to the project - 4 - Introduction - 5 - Saru Wala Maqbara - 6 - History - 6 - Present condition - 7 - Ali Mardan Khan’s Tomb - 8 - History - 8 - Present condition - 9 - Dai Angas Tomb - 11 - History - 11 - Present condition - 11 - Asif Jah’s tomb - 13 - History - 13 - Present condition - 14 - Dai Angah Mosque - 15 - History - 15 - Present condition - 15 - Wazir Khan’s Baradari - 17 - History - 17 - Present condition - 18 - Maryam Zamani Mosque - 19 - History - 19 - Present condition - 19 - Anarkali’s Tomb - 21 - History - 21 - Present condition - 21 - Zebunnisa’s Tomb and Garden - 23 - History - 23 - Present condition - 23 - Nadira Begum’s Tomb and Garden - 25 - History - 25 - Present condition - 26 - Kamran’s Baradari - 27 - History - 27 - Present condition - 27 - Government Efforts - 28 - Conclusion - 31 - Acknowledgements I would like to extend my thanks to all those people how have help me supported me during the field work and course work of this project .I would specially like to thank my fellow student for helping me out with the project furnishing there ideas correcting my mistakes and shearing there knowledge in the subject. Specially Amad Rasool, Fahima khan and Zeeshan Ahmad. Big thank you to my sister and mother who had to bear with me during the field work of this project .Special thanks to my brother with out...
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...In the paved quadrangles and elsewhere around the building, other statues commemorate Hastings, Cornwallis, Clive, Wellesley, and Dalhousie, and in the south, visitors pass the Edward the seventh’s memorial arch, upon which is a bronze equestrian statue of the Royal, by Bertram Mackennal and; a marble statue of Curzon, the aforementioned conceptualizer; by Frederic William Pomeroy. The gardens contains statues of dignitaries such as Bentinck and Ripon, governor-generals of India; and the pioneering Bengali industrialist, Rajendra Nath...
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...| | | |Abstract: | |Taj Mahal (täzh məhäl′, täj məhŭl′), mausoleum, Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Yamuna River. It is considered one of the most | |beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian Islamic architecture. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan | |ordered it built after the death (1631) of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The building, which was completed between 1632 and 1638, was | |designed by the local Muslim architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori; set in its carefully laid out grounds, it is a reflection of the gardens of | |Paradise to which the faithful ascend. The entire complex, with gardens, gateway structures, and mosque, was completed in 1648. [ABSTRACT FROM| |PUBLISHER] | | | |Permalink...
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...The Mughal Empire The great grandson of Tamerlane, Babar, who on his mother's side was descended from the famous Genghiz Khan, came to India in 1526 at the request of an Indian governor who sought Babar's help in his fight against Ibrahim Lodi, the last head of the Delhi Sultanate. Babar defeated Lodi at Panipat, not far from Delhi, and so came to establish the Mughal Empire in India. Babar ruled until 1530, and was succeeded by his son Humayun, who gave the empire its first distinctive features. But it is Humayun's son, Akbar the Great, who is conventionally described as the glory of the empire. Akbar reigned from 1556 to 1605, and extended his empire as far to the west as Afghanistan, and as far south as the Godavari river. Akbar, though a Muslim, is remembered as a tolerant ruler, and he even started a new faith, Din-i-Ilahi, which was an attempt to blend Islam with Hinduism, Christianity, Jainism, and other faiths. He won over the Hindus by naming them to important military and civil positions, by conferring honors upon them, and by marrying a Hindu princess. Akbar was succeeded by his son Salim, who took the title of Jahangir. In his reign (1605-1627), Jahangir consolidated the gains made by his father. The courtly culture of the Mughals flourished under his rule; like his great grand-father, Babar, he had an interest in gardens, and Mughal painting probably reached its zenith in Jahangir's time. Jahangir married Nur Jahan, "Light of the World", in 1611. Shortly after his...
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...Shahjahanabad was the ambitious city conceived and built in 1650 AD by Emperor Shah Jahan, the great-great-great grandson of the first Mughal ruler of India, Babur. The city was developed on the banks of the river Yamuna as a response to the shift of the capital from Agra to Delhi. The new city was built approximately to the shape of a quarter circle with walls surrounding about 1500 acres of land and 14 major gates. The city was centred upon the palace complex, the Red Fort or the Lal Qila- the first of the building complexes to be constructed. The second most important building of the city was the Jama Masjid, constructed between 1650 and 1656 on a hilly terrain southwest of the fort. The main north-south axis for Shahjahanabad ran from...
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...TOURISM IN INDIA: Travel and tourism is the largest service industry in India. It provides heritage, cultural, medical, business and sports tourism. The main objective of this sector is to develop and promote tourism, maintain competitiveness of India as tourist destination and improve and expand existing tourism products to ensure employment generation and economic growth. India has become a popular tourist destination with thousands of people visiting different parts of India each year. Tourism in India has shown a phenomenal growth in the past decade. One of the reasons is that the Ministry of tourism, India has realized the immense potential of tourism in India during vacations. India travel tourism has grown rapidly with a great influx of tourists from all across the globe who have been irresistibly attracted to the rich culture, heritage, and incredible natural beauty of India. India offers luxury travel to its travellers and tourists. Almost all the cities in India have something to interest tourists. India tourism with its foggy hill stations, captivating beaches, historical monuments, golden deserts, serene backwaters, pilgrimage sites, rich wildlife, and colourful fairs capture the heart of every tourist. In addition, a variety of festivals, lively markets, vibrant lifestyle, and traditional Indian hospitality, makes one's experience as an Indian tourist truly unforgettable and fantastic. Some of the major tourist destinations in India are the Himalayas, Agra...
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...creating a vegetable/fruit garden. I picked the back corner of the yard which receives full sun but is not directly in your line of sight when you look outside from the house. My original plan involved putting a short fence around it to keep pups out but after examining the soil we had to change our plans. The soil in that spot is incredibly sandy, which is odd since in this area we have a lot of clay. So we think an old playset used to be back there and they dumped sand for the kids. So our options became either digging up all the sand and getting rid of it somehow or building raised beds. We chose option B. Obviously it was not a very difficult decision. But we were gardening and raised bed virgins so some research was in order. We learned we had a lot of options in terms of materials- Stone/brick-too expensive and too permanent in case our adventures in vegetable gardening do not go as well as we hope Landscape Timbers- cheap but very we unsure what wood they we actually made of and how they would hold up Cedar-pretty, resists rot, can do it ourselves but still expensive if making multiple beds Pressure-Treated-cheap, easy to use but conflicting info about it's use for food gardens. From what I have gathered from my online research, pressure treated wood used to be treated with arsenic which is not to be used in food gardens. However, they are no longer treated with that particular chemical and it is now safe to use in food gardens. I found the brand that...
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...store that would offer gardeners a one-stop shopping place for products, plants, gifts, and services.Garden.com is a virtual store, selling a wide variety of gardening and gardening-related products. It also offered a range of services, including an online magazine, an online landscape planning and design tool, a plant finder tool, a monthly newsletter, a garden reminder service, a weekly sales and promotion e-mail, and celebrity-hosted chat sessions. In addition, a “Garden Doctor” service was made available for answering gardening questions. The company was launched on March 1996 and it was doing well after initial launch and December 26, the company ceased its customer service operations. November 15, 2000, a phased shutdown of the company’s retail operations and the sale of its consumer business assets began - Project Scope Project Name: Garden.com Project scope is to build a new website which caters the needs of the Gardening Industry. It is $50-70 million business in America. -Highly fragmented and no clear winner,, no new company accounts for more than 1% of the market. -Plants are not commodity market -Gardens tend to be affluent and willing to pay widely to variety of prices for the same item. -Perception of quality and amount of except advice to biggest factors in purchasing decision. Objectives: Be the virtual superstore and resource center of the gardening supply business. One-stop shop for quality gardening resources Product scope description Web will be...
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...It was a warm, breezy summer day in 2005, with the vibrant green leaves swaying in unison with the slight wind that sent the sweet aroma of the freshly cut grass around the yard. Fuzzy, my small mutt at the time, rolled around on the blanket that sat on the ground, wrinkling it up as he went. Little did we know we were about to be called upon by the Lord above to do a little bit of something new today. It was time for our weekly picnic that we always had with each other and my dolls. Just as we were finishing up our creamy peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches we heard a loud shrill, “HELP! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!” I looked immediately over to Fuzzy and we sprinted across the tree-lined trail to my grandmother’s home. We came upon her standing on a green plastic lawn chair with a large wooden shovel in her hand. “Grandma, what is wrong?” I shouted from afar. “It’s a snake! There is a snake in the flower bed!” she panted out frantically. Being the rebel I was, I strolled over there rolling my eyes at my grandmother’s silly sense of panic and began searching for the snake. If only I could go back in time and do what any regular kid would do when they sense panic in an authority figure. I would have sprinted the other direction in a heartbeat. I ran to the distress call of my grandmother only to find her weeping in the corner of the yard. “Heavenlee, listen to me, call the police,” she said with a quivering voice. This made me shudder just a little bit. My grandmother was...
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...Aim: My aim is to ask the children in an afterschool facility to make a flower/herb garden. These children are currently attending Bizzy B’s Afterschool in Dublin 9. Introduction: A school age childcare facility should offer a range of activities to cater for all ages of children in their care. The advantages for parents is the knowledge that their child is being cared for in a safe and happy environment. That it is locally based in the community and provides for parent to return to work. The advantages for children is in providing a safe and enjoyable experience in which to play, socialise, have a say in activity planning and interact with children their own age. Children can do their homework if parents request but this should not be the main focus. (Plan, 2015) Plan: My planned proposal of the activity is a play based learning and development activity. My aim in this assignment is to choose a group of children aged between 6-10 years. I will consult with the practitioner, parents and children to gather as much information as possible and enquire about allergies and illnesses such as asthma and obtain permission. I intend to recycle a freight palate and sand it completely to remove any risk of splinters. Remove some of the boards to leave four large slot openings, place some roof felting on the back to act as a base cover and weed block. I will ask the group to lay out flower beds in the empty slots using either herbs or early spring bulbs. Each member of the...
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