Amitabh Shukla

1 month ago | htsyndication.com | Amitabh Shukla

Posted On: 2025-04-21 Posted By: Amitabh Shukla Business & Finance Health & Lifestyle Travel Education Technology Cities Real Estate & Construction Pioneer India, April 21 -- Sometimes I wonder how much the British as colonial powers have impacted India and contributed to its history, legacy and most importantly creation of hill stations. A case in point is McLeodganj in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. As the name itself suggests, the popular hill station was named after Donald Friell McLeod,...

1 month ago | dailypioneer.com | Amitabh Shukla

Sometimes I wonder how much the British as colonial powers have impacted India and contributed to its history, legacy and most importantly creation of hill stations. A case in point is McLeodganj in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. As the name itself suggests, the popular hill station was named after Donald Friell McLeod, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab (1865-1870) who apparently had a role in the creation of the hill station and making it an army cantonment for the Gurkha Battalion.

1 month ago | htsyndication.com | Amitabh Shukla

India, April 13 -- The modern city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, the financialCapital of Israel, is located right on the Mediterranean Sea and for me at first glimpse, it gave the vibes of Mumbai, which too is the financial Capital of India and located on the coast of Arabian Sea. It has a huge well kept promenade facing the sea, running for several kilometres, something similar to Mumbai where the Marine Drive resembles it to some extent.

1 month ago | dailypioneer.com | Amitabh Shukla

The modern city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, the financial Capital of Israel, is located right on the Mediterranean Sea and for me at first glimpse, it gave the vibes of Mumbai, which too is the financial Capital of India and located on the coast of Arabian Sea. It has a huge well kept promenade facing the sea, running for several kilometres, something similar to Mumbai where the Marine Drive resembles it to some extent.

2 months ago | htsyndication.com | Amitabh Shukla

Posted On: 2025-04-07 Posted By: Amitabh Shukla Education Technology Pioneer India, April 7 -- Jerusalem, which literally means "The City of Peace", has a history which perhaps no other city in the world has, riven as it has been through centuries and the present geography of the city is a little over half a century old when Israel decisively won the six-day war in 1967 and pushed out Jordan from the old and Eastern parts of the city. Till that date, the city, also Capital of the country, was...