Growing up in the 80’s and 90s in Kolkata had its charm. Relatives and friends from other parts of the country would come to Kolkata for a vacation and one thing that they would always try was the Metro subway trains and the Trams. It was much later that Metro started catching up in other…
Visiting a zoo when traveling across Uzbekistan was never an option in the first place. It’s just by chance that Tashkent Zoo was on the way while I was going towards another tourist spot, so I decided to give this place a look. Russia is famous for its bears, and I was very sure this…
Minor Mosque is one of the newest attractions in Tashkent. The word “Minor” is pronounced by the locals as “Mee-noor” so do not do a literal English translation of the word “Minor” into something small. Minor is the neighborhood where this mosque was constructed. I was apprehensive about visiting this mosque as it looked different…
My fascination for WWII has taken me around the globe, and when I was touring Tashkent in Uzbekistan, I had heard about the Japanese and German Cemetery In Tashkent, a cemetery which had graves of Japanese and German prisoners of war(POW). Mind it we were in a country that was once part of the USSR…
Your trip across Tashkent will be incomplete without a trip to the Hazrati Imam complex. This is not just a single large mosque but instead is a collection of multiple buildings. Located in the old part of Tashkent the main building managed to survive the 1966 devastating Tashkent earthquake. This place is also known as…
Tashkent as a city has a tragic connection to India other than the historical past. It is this very city that the former Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri died while in office when he had gone there for a peace summit along with representatives from Pakistan and USSR. To honor the late Prime…
