Pushkarni any translation into English ?

@chilloutab2

Well written,
Thank you. 🙏

@valobasa4ever Apnakeo dhonnobad... apnar kobita gulo porechhi... darun lekhen!!!

@chilloutab2 thank you so much for your well explained reply. It does fit with the story that this is where the Licchavis had their coronation. We did visit King Vishal fort's ruins and I was truly saddened by its condition. I feel Bihar Tourism should do much more to attract tourists to places like Vaishali, Rajgir and Nalanda. Tourism could be a big boost to the state economy.
For the last 3 days we were the only customers at Vaishali Residency so I don't know how they pay the wages for the 10 staff on hand !!!

@Dodger2025 There is so much potential all over India... and all totally untapped!!!

I think Indians need to change the way history is looked at... it's either lost in myth or politicized, but never truly taught objectively to the point that there is common awareness.

I mean, Vaishali is the original global cradle of democracy... the world's first democracy and elected representative government, centuries before the Greek democratic city states. The Lichhavis are the people who gave human civilisation democracy... even the idea of the bicameral legislature in the form of the Sabha and Samiti.... yet there is no acknowledgement of that fact, leave alone any celebration!!

Even in India people do not know that India is the global birthplace of democracy, so you can't even fault the rest of the world for not knowing it. In Indian school history text books, this used to be just a footnote, and now I don't think it's even taught!!
And those people who know and say these things are branded "right wing" and "nationalist" by the left-leaning, Westernised, recruited and indoctrinated mainstream media and intelligentsia, who have an inherent inferiority complex as a colonial hangover.

Any other country would have run with it, publicised it, made it a global tourism hotspot as the place where representative government originated from... but alas!

The global awareness level of India's wonders is so abysmally low that it's laughable.
Take this website itself, for example. There are so many political and social discussions taking place here, but there's no mention of India in those, even when the lessons that India can give or can be derived from India, are absolutely invaluable to the world.
And of course, Indians are the poorest of marketers, because it is essentially a civilisation that is all content to the near exclusion of form, as opposed to the West being mainly form over content... so there is no historical concept in India of packaging anything well or advertising.

But thankfully, I think there are now signs at last that India is waking up to realising itself and it's place in the world after millennia. Of course a 1.5 billion strong mass of people will take time to make any move, so even that waking up will take time to truly manifest both within and without the country, especially because India historically has always been, and remains, a society where dissent, free thought and contrarianism are accepted and even encouraged, making it pull in all directions at once.

So perhaps when that waking up has manifested at last, maybe Bihar Tourism will also have woken up to the goldmine they are sitting on and be able and willing to mine it!

@chilloutab2 i am still very optimistic about India.My fist trip to India was in 1977 and at every visit (this is 34th visit) I noticed some progress and even while there are still power outages in countryside Bihar most homes have now electricity and 90% of kids (what I saw last 3 days) are going to school, even if it is only to year 8 or 9... a great improvement it seems to me over the last 50 years.
Also there seems to be a new found pride about Indian history, philosophies, sciences amongst Indian scholars, at least on Academia.edu if not on some medias

@Dodger2025 Yes there has been a sea change in the last few years...as the economy improves, so will confidence - and as confidence rises, so will knowledge and the desire to know about the past and plan out a future, leading to further economic gains - so a positive spiral has started.

There is definitely progress happening in all spheres... but for progress to trickle down to all strata of such a huge population and to all places in such a big country will take time. I just wish it was faster!

@chilloutab2 so do I...

@chilloutab2
We went back to Abhishek Pushkarni Sarovar this morning but we had PINK Lotuses blooming instead of BLUE ones, don't know the meaning of this change of colour (if there is one)... may be blue lotuses come later in the seasons

@Dodger2025
I'm not surprised, actually. The blue lotus is very rare... it's only found in certain climatic conditions. The normal, commonly-found lotus is pink.

I'm sure that with climate change and global warming, whatever conditions existed for blue lotuses to bloom when this waterbody was named many eons ago, have long since disappeared, so now its conditions are only fit for the common pink lotus.

@chilloutab2 thank you for the commentary. Some would say Kali Yuga in full swing means no more blue lotus for us " living in interesting times" LOL