A Slice of Art and Design

Sometimes is it is hype and at times it is hoopla. But we the lesser mortals always end up having a preconceived image of everything that we are about to read or see or visit much before the event actually takes place. The Taj Mahal visit is one such event of my life which had happened while I was still studying in college. We went up with lot of enthusiasm and were extremely excited to take the final turn and face the Taj (one actually enters the premises and continue to move forward and then comes a point where we turn and face the Taj), the famous symbol of Love! I won’t say that I was disappointed but it definitely did not provide the ecstatic experience that I had expected... Well not at the first sight! But as we walked into the mausoleum it was definitely a great and incomparable experience. On the same tour we got the opportunity to visit the Lotus Temple (Baha’i) in New Delhi for the very first time. I went there with little or no prior knowledge or study done. It did ...

As friends of ours let us know that they are planning to visit Dubai. The question that first comes to my mind is what are the places we shall take them for sightseeing and going around. The answer invariably are the shopping malls! We ourselves have admired the shopping malls and the experience more than anything else. Dubai by the virtue of being so well placed in the tourism map of the world is a hot favorite of tourists from all around the globe. It caters to both budget & luxury sectors with plenty of variety for each category and also providing enough choices for the Ultra Luxury sectors. Be a Nouveau riche or a classy one you will never run out of options when it comes to shopping. To live up to the reputation there are shopping malls dotting the entire cityscape. The architecture and construction is already the buzzword here and to exceed the tourist’s expectation Dubai have created the biggest, the largest, the highest, tallest and the classiest and best in every category....