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Akshardham is a Hindu temple complex in Delhi, India. Inaugurated in November 2005 by the President of India, Abdul Kalam, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the leader of the organization responsible for the creation of Akshardham, Pramukh Swami Maharaj.

The main building at the centre of the complex - houses an 11ft high, gilded image of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The building itself is built of Rajasthani pink sandstone and Italian Carrara marble. At 141 ft high, its impressive presence is felt from afar, and its carved details of flora, fauna, dancers, musicians and Gods covering its surfaces from top to bottom, leave most visitors in awe. Akshardham Delhi is the biggest hand carved structure in the world, today.

Spread across a 100-acres, this complex is flooded with shrines, sculptures, parks, lakes and rides. All these come together to create the most powerful experience of Indian culture ever to exist. Dedicated to Lord Swaminarayan and inspired by Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Akshardham is a miracle worked by the service and devotion of thousands of volunteers.

The imposing 10 story high monument is made entirely of intricately carved, 6000 tons of pink sand-stone from Rajasthan, with no steel or cement used at all, ensuring that the monument will last for a thousand years. More than 12 million man hours of 900 skilled craftsmen have created this magnificent monument of 93 sculpted pillars, 40 windows carved from both sides,and a feast of forms and filigrees. Built inch to inch according to the ancient Sthaapatya shastras of India, no steel has been used. Support beams are 22 ft. single piece stone blocks. The pillars are poetry in stone, with beautiful expression from foot to crown.

Read about my visit to Akshardham Temple -
Akshardham Temple - A must see for everyone (part i)
Akshardham Temple - A must see for everyone (part ii)

This is simply Awesome !!

What is Sindoor?
Sindoor is a red powder used by married Hindu women. During the marriage ceremony, the groom applies sindoor to the parting of the bride’s hair to show that she is now a married woman. Subsequent sindoor is applied by the wife as part of her dressing routine. Once widowed, a woman is not supposed to wear sindoor.

Since last week or so I have been feeling little bit of itching in my eyes and for few minutes text on the monitor used to become little blurry. Then it again was back to normal after giving my eyes some rest. This made me to search the internet for few exercises and I tried them & found them to be quite useful and thought why not share it with you.

Those people who spend around 8-10 hours everyday in front of computer monitor usually feel similar kind of itching or uneasiness in eyes. So I suggest if you give few minutes everyday for exercising your eyes, it will definitely make you feel more relaxed and would also help in improving productivity.

• Exercise / Tip 1:
This simple exercise relaxes and relieves tension from the optic nerves.
- Open your eyes wide and look up.
- Hold it for 5-10 seconds.
- Close your eyes and squeeze your eyes.
- Hold it for 3-5 seconds.

• Exercise / Tip 2 :
This exercise relaxes the optic nerves and helps improve eyesight.
- Hold your head straight look to your right
- Hold the position for about 5 seconds.
- Repeat the movement looking to your left, looking up, and down.
- Do 4-5 cycles twice a day

• Exercise / Tip 3 :
This exercise lubricates and soothes dry eyes. Improves eyesight.
- Place a tip of your index finger between the eyebrows.
- Looking at the finger tip, slowly move the finger to the tip of your nose without blinking.
- By the time eyes release tears naturally and you feel like blinking.
- Repeat few times.

Referring to one of my earlier posts - Adsense Image Beautifier, a plug-in which added an image adjacent to the ads. Finally Google have come up with a post for Ad and image placement: a policy clarification which states that the publishers should not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads.

Publishers should also be careful to avoid similar implementations that people could find misleading. Putting up a horizontal or vertical line between the image and ads would not also make that legal. So be careful as Google will be on hunt for those who put adsense ads along with images. I had also installed that plug-in on my blog which have been removed now. I think its good that Google had finally put an end to issue by publicly stating that this stuff is illegal after receiving complaints from advertisers.

Here are some examples provided by Google that wouldn’t comply with the policy :

Appu Ghar, the kids amusement park located opposite to Supreme Court in New Delhi, India may have to go as Urban Development Ministry has allotted about 12 acres of India Trade Promotion Organisation land in the Pragati Maidan area to the Supreme Court.

The only theme park which is centrally located in Delhi includes haunted houses, dragn ride, striking cars , roller coaster rides, Go-Karting, Oysters, a huge water park with lots of huge slides, rivers, lakes, etc.

Appu, was both the cartoon mascot, and a live elephant mascot that became the beloved star of the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India. This amusement park got the name from that Mascot’s name. “Appu” - The Name of the Elephant and “Ghar” means House.

According to the plan, Supreme Court will have a a new wing, complete with offices, lawyers chambers, auditorium and a library in the the allotted space.
Justifying the need for land, SCBA officials have said, “the amusement park could shift elsewhere, but not the Court.”

I would ask such officials, do they have a plan, once they occupy this space and in few years time they will require more space then what would be their move? Would they be then destroying any other such place nearby / or taking over another part of Pragati Maidan or move to a new place? This place remains the best hunting ground for young kids to celebrate their birthdays or to enjoy on the last day of the final exams. But from now on kids might have to look for farther places to have fun.

Related:
• See location on Wikimapia

• Kids’ crusade to save Appu Ghar

• Don’t close Appu Ghar