A quick trip to Warrangal

Warrangal is around 150 kms from Hyderabad. It is part pof tri-city comprising of Hanamkonda, Warangal and Kazipet.It was capital during Kakaitya dynasty.

This was our first long drive in our Loveable Honda City. It was WOW experience with Honda City running at 100 km/hr minimally and it just feel like 40-50 km/hr. Superb Drive!!!!!!

We went on May 7,2011. It was a Vikas friend's daughter naming ceremony. Though it was an occassion, we just changed it to a trip as we heard a lot about Warrangal.

 Saksh had gone to granny's place so we both went. Adi bhaia and Chandan accompained us.

The road is average but traffic was bad so it took little more than expected time.We had our breakfast on the way which we packed. As usual, Alloo parathas...

Tried to be King-Queen by sitting on the throne. Yes, our first destination after attending function was Warrangal fort.

It was hot sunny day but the beauty of left outs of Forts were so amazing that we forgot the sun. Here are some pics:

Saw pillars, old templetes, scluptures. It was an example of amazing architecture. Was real hot, so rested in shade for sometime and enjoyed this years old creativity of India.

On to Khush Mahal

It is a beautiful , true master piece and silent trubute

to rich past. This was as audience hall by Shitab Khan , teh governer of Warangal in 16th century. You can go upstairs and watch the complete forts beauty from this mahal's terrace. Soem clicks here:

We were really impressed seeing this old and ancient sculpture of 16th century.

It was slient inside with just 2 men sitting outside to check tickets.

Once, an audience room, converts to much slient history but Warangal tourism has maintained it real well.

Journey continues to Thousand Pillar Temple     

The Thousand pillar Temple , built by the Kakatiya ruler, Rudradeva , in 1163 AD is excellent example of indian history.

This is a beautiful sculpture with very rich carved pilars and icons. This is built on 1m high platform on slopes of Hanamkonda hills .

Three Shrines inside the temple are Lord hiva , Vishnu and Surya.

The rock-cut elephants and 6 feet Nandi carved out of single piece of Black Basalt is another attraction of Thousand Pillar temple.

Did some pooja, took some rest and finally came out of the temple.

Started our journey back to Hyderabad as it was getting dark by now. Needless to mention that water and cold drinks were ON due to lot of heat outside.



The traffic was high even in the evening. Took halt on the way to eat something. Though theer was nothign much to offer on the way, but we managed it with a small secent tea shop. We wer back in Hyderabad by 9 pm.

It was fun filled small trip , a bachelor trip after long :). as Saksh is not around.  Though , Warangal is not a great hangout place, but it is superb if you are intersted to see some goos specimens of architecture and Indian history.

Comments are welcome !!
Signing Off for this article..Reacha

Happy Women's day - 2011 celebrations @ Office

Hi All ,

This is to keep the promise of writing a post for our Women's day celebration @ Office on March 8,2011.

International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration of women. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements

We at IBU MS Plan celebrated International Women’s day on March 8,2011

Time and Venue:  @ 2.30 pm at 7^th floor Conf room (My Home Hub). 

Dress Code:

Saree/Chudidhar in Pink/Blue

It all started with introduction of all IBU MS girls assocaites and sharing thier thoughts on *Why Women's day celebration and how to do*

 It was great to know each other and we all promised to take this connect forward.

We were around 25 girls with variety in age, experience , and much more.

The first session was Debate session. We all feel that Womens are part of all fields today and theyare good leaders but there were few facts brought on table were

• The United States ranks sixtieth in the world in terms of female political representation

• A study of Sunday-morning talk shows found that male guests outnumbered females 9 to 1.

• Women constitute 47 percent of the labor force in the United States yet lead only six Fortune 500 companies.

• One of out every seven military personnel in Iraq are women, but only 50 women in the armed services have reached the rank of admiral or general. 

Thinking???? Yes, we had a debate session on *Why more and more girls are toppers in schools and colleges, but when it comes to Leadership , we get to see very few girls*. Many women shared thier experiences .It was FUN with learning. We discussed on How to balance Personal Vs Professional life.

We divided nto Team Kalpana Chawla, Mother Teresa , Aishwarya Rai, Sushwa Swaraj and played few games. The girls proved with DISCOVER INDIA quiz that they are BEAUTY WITH BRAINS. Here are pics of winners. It was followed by SOME fun GAMES of Dumb Charades , Some Latka Jhatkas.

Soon we had beautiful ladies walking on the ramp and we had BEST SMILE, MOST ELEGANT , BEST DECENT WALK, BEST TRADITIONAL , MOST CONFIDENT PRIZES GIVEN. You can see all smiles in the pictures here. 

Its incomplete without Pizza and Some drinks. Here are few pics.

Thanks all for participating!!!!

Concluding the lesson learnt:

Domination as a leadership style is becoming less and less popular. There is a new growing appreciation of...those traits that women use to keep families together and to organize volunteers to unite and make change in the shared life of communities. These newly admired leadership qualities of shared leadership; nurturance and doing good for others are today not only sought after but also indeed needed to make a difference in the world....A feminine way of leading includes helping the world to understand and be principled about values that really matter.

Comments are welcome !!
Signing Off for this article..Reacha

According to Wikipedia:

Too Busy to write about "Songs of Earth Resort" Trip

Coming soon.......