Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Beautiful India
Nubra Valley, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir.
The blue range of mountains that run along the western coast of India.This shot was taken in mid May from Palivasal Tea Estate in Munnar, Kerala.
Kargil District, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir.
Kaveri river running through Hogenakkal, Tamil Nadu.
Lake Pichola , Udaipur , Rajasthan.
Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan.
Kumbalgarh Fort, Rajasthan.
Thirumalai Nayak Palace, inner courtyard, Madurai,Tamil Nadu.
The port city of Vishakhapatnam (Vizag for short), Andhra Pradesh.
Lake Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Eravikulam National Park, Kerala.
Tso-kyo Lake, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttaranchal.
Silent Valley, Palakkad, Kerala.
A boathouse on the placid backwaters of Kumarakom, Kerala.
A Cathedral in Thiruvalla, Kerala incorporating the features of a traditional Hindu Temple, a Mosque and a Church.
Munnar, Kerala.
Gaganachukki Falls, Mandya, Karnataka.
Vellore fort, Tamil Nadu.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Kallanai oldest dam in the world
The Grand Anicut, also known as the [கல்லணை] Kallanai, is an ancient dam built on the Kaveri River in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
It was built by the Chola king Karikalan around the 1st Century AD and is considered one of the oldest water-diversion or water-regulator structures in the world, which is still in use.
The Kaveri River forms the boundary between the Erode and Salem districts. The Bhavani River joins the Kaveri at the town of Bhavani, where the Sangameswarar Temple, an important pilgrimage spot in Tamil Nadu, was built at the confluence of the two rivers. Sweeping past the historic rock of Tiruchirapalli, it breaks into two channels at the island of Srirangam, which enclose between them the delta of Thanjavur (Tanjore), the garden of Tamil Nadu. The northern channel is called the Kollidam (Kolidam); the other preserves the name of Kaveri, and empties into the Bay of Bengal at Poompuhar, a few hundred miles south of Chennai(Madras). On the seaward face of its delta are the seaports of Nagapattinam and Karaikal. Irrigation works have been constructed in the delta for over 2,000 years.
The Kallanai is a massive dam of unhewn stone, 329 metres (1,080 ft) long and 20 metres (60 ft) wide, across the main stream of the Kaveri. The purpose of the dam was to divert the waters of the Kaveri across the fertile Delta region for irrigation via canals. The dam is still in excellent repair, and supplied a model to later engineers, including the Sir Arthur Cotton’s 19th-century dam across the Kollidam, the major tributary of the Kaveri. The area irrigated by the ancient irrigation network is about 1,000,000 acres (4,000 square kilometres). Recently the Delta farmers of Tamil Nadu demanded the Tamil Nadu government honour the great Chola king Karikalan, who built the Kallanai. his dam is a buttress dam
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