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Walking Tours in India

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Whats is a Walking Tour?

 Wikipedia says "A walking tour is a tour of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot, frequently in an urban setting." To put it in plain English, walking tours are nothing but exploring the city by walk. Walking Tours makes us to feel more local than any guided tour. Usually walking tours are day trips or sight seeing holidays on which the participants primarily travel on foot.


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Famous Tourist spots in Tamilnadu!

Introduction

Tamilnadu - Archaeological evidence points to this area being one of the longest continuous habitations in the Indian peninsula. A Neolithic stone celt (a hand-held axe) with the Indus script on it was discovered at Sembian-Kandiyur near Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu. Three dynasties, namely the Chera, Chola and Pandya, ruled the area of present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Besides these three dynasties, the Sangam era Tamilakam (Tamil homeland) was also divided into various provinces named 'nadu'…
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Father of Pythagoras theorem is "Bothayanaar's theorem"

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If we dig into India's history, many unbelievable things are been taken out. For instance, we all know  Pythagoras theorem

c2 = a2 + b2. (c square = a square + b square)

if a = 5 and b = 12

=5*5 + 12*12
=25+144
=169
= √ 169
= 13
c = 13


a2 + b2 = c2

9*9 + b2 = 15*15
81 + b2 = 225
b2 = 144
b = √144
b = 12

This is know to all. Now a Tamil poet has written this algorithm like a poem.

"ஓடும் நீளம் தனை ஒரேஎட்டுக்கூறு ஆக்கி கூறிலே ஒன்றைத்தள்ளி குன்றத்தில் பாதியாய்ச் சேர்த்தால்வருவது கர்ணம் தானே"


Notable words:


ஓடும் நீளம் = Longest side
ஒரேஎட்டுக்கூறு = 8 parts
தள்ளி = subtract
பாதி = half


This poem is summarised as follows


c= (a - a/8) + (b/2)
c= (a - a/8) + (b/2)
= 4-(4/8) + (3/2)
= 5
It seems to be perfect. No square root required. Though it seems to be perfect it is not accurate. See more examples below.
 a = 24 b = 7 c= (a - a/8) + (b/2)
= 24-(24/8) + (7/2)
= 24.5 c= 24.5 ≠ 25
 a = 15  b = 8 c= (a - a/8) + (b/2)
= 15-(15/8) + (8/2)
= 17.125 c= 17.125 ≠ 17


The above two examples clearly shows that t…
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Trip to Umiam lake

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It is day 5 of our stay in Shillong. We planned to visit Ward’s lake in Shillong. After reaching Ward’s lake we came to know that every Tuesday it is closed. Without knowing what to do, we opened our trip advisor app and came to know about Umiam water sports complex.

After seeing about the place in trip advisor we headed towards Megalaya tourism department in Police Bazaar (which is near Madras café) and inquired how we can reach that place. The people in megalaya tourism are very helpful. They told us it is in Guwahati road and asked us to go to the end of GS Road in Shillong where we can find plenty of sumo services. From Police Bazaar we went to BaraBazzar from there to Motphran and then to Garikhana; some 15 to 20 mins walk in busy roads of Shillong. In Garikhana you can find lots of sharing jeep services (either TATA sumo or Mahindra Maxx). Here is where you can find yellow painted sumo vehicle and the fare is very cheap. Normal capacity of sumo is 9 but here even though 10 people…
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