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Travel: Ramalingeshwara temple complex in Avani

Legends of Avani The plan to reclaim life from the pandemic calls for taking road trips to places of interest not too far from the city I reside in, Bangalore, and the Avani temple complex,  30 kms ahead of Kolar town, fits  the bill beautifully. Soaked in antiquity, as the guidebooks would say, the Ramalingeshwara…

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Travel: Nelliyampathy, Kerala

Beyond the cloudy  mountains Where I chance upon Nelliampathy, an idyllic hill station tucked high up in a fold of the Western Ghats above Palakkad. The whole area is jaw-droppingly beautiful, even for a typical Kerala landscape. Navy ribbons of road, red-tiled houses, topography in all possible shades of green, the emerald of the trees…

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