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Exploring India via Google Maps.

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Looking for that nontendo. Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Just want to play animal crossing

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It was a purple Xbox

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Academy of Fine Arts in Hauz Khas, Delhi.

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Somewhere in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

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Uttar Kannada District, Karnataka

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Taj Mahal, Agra Seen from across the river Yamuna, at Mehtab Bath (Moonlit Garden) (unfriendly reminder that this is a marvel that BJP ministers want to demolish as it represents the apotheosis of the glory of Islamic architecture)

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Ozran Beach, North Goa.

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Safa Masjid in Ponda, Goa.

Safa Masjid is the oldest mosque in the Indian state of Goa. Built by Ibrahim Adil Shah in 1560 as one of the 27 mosques in Ponda, only Safa stood to tell its tale after the Portuguese inquisition. (via Archaeological Survey of India)

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Jami Masjid inside Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

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Imambara inside the British Residency, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

The British Residency is a group of several building in a common precinct. The complex now exists in ruins and is located in the heart of the city of Lucknow, in vicinity of other monuments like Shaheed Smarak, Tehri Kothi and High Court Building. It was constructed during the rule of Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II, who was the fifth Nawab of the province of Awadh (Oudh). The construction took place between 1780 to 1800 AD and served as the residence for the British Resident General who was a representative in the court of the Nawab.

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India rejects Google Street View over security concerns

The 360-degree mapping service, currently unavailable in the subcontinent, was reportedly rejected by the Indian government after a terror attack on a military base.

No new locations will be added on Google Street View because the current government thinks that coverage of tourist sites will apparently lead to terror attacks on military bases (???)

They also said that Google’s mapping technology led to the terror attack in Pathankot, Punjab and apparently not the terrorists themselves. I guess this will be news to the Indian government that both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are almost fully covered on street view and even Pakistan plans to catch up. Terror attacks happen often in Israel, but it has full street view coverage. 

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The campus for the O.P. Jindal Global University is planned in an entirely flat agricultural land, 10 km away from the city of Sonepat, Haryana on the remain of the mythical Grand Trunk Road that was going through Northern India, from Afghanistan to Burma.

As a Greenfield project with no built context, the design started on a very rigorous geometrical framework of traces regulateurs of squares and golden rectangles, dear to European architecture as well as Indian architecture.   The project is designed like a vast classical garden where the nature has been tamed by the rule of geometry. At the center is the academic square based on 6 courtyards clubbing together lines of classrooms and faculty offices, while auditoria, reception, library and cafeteria occupy the center of each courtyard. The main structures are large span steel bridges entirely flexible inside. All buildings are on pilotis to offer a continuous shaded park below the structures.

All the buildings come together around a network of gardens and parks, reintroducing the lost landscape of agricultural fields and vegetable gardens into the university.

(via indian-architects.com)

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Karli, Pune district, Maharashtra.

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The double sided statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta inside the Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad.

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The Centre is unlikely to allow Internet giant Google’s Street View service in India amid red flags raised by the Ministry of Defence and security agencies. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

The Indian government may not allow street view to happen in India. Sad news! Especially for this blog. 

The current street view locations are very few and limited to only certain states in India (that’s why you never see any North-eastern states on this blog)

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You should do one in ranakpur, Rajasthan

Hey! Unfortunately ranakpur is not on street view!

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National Handicraft and Handlooms Museum is ethnographic space in New Delhi where craftsmen from various parts of India come in to work towards preservation of various traditional arts and crafts. Today the museum holds over 35,000 rare and distinctive pieces reflecting the continuing tradition of Indian craftsmen through painting, embroidery, textiles, various crafts of clay, stone and wood

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Chullikal, Kochi, Kerala.