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The guide told us to turn our camera into selfie mode. May be he wanted at least one pic with him in the frame-as a memory! I did as told. Then he took us to a spot and told us to click a selfie and surprised we were! We were looking into the screen in a way that the roof of the monument too was there. what an awe-inspiring site it was! a dome like architecture with a beautiful pattern ,which enabled sunlight to sieve through- was the roof of the royal Hammam where Noorjahan\u00a0is believed to have taken shower while her stay there in 1617. And this was just a tiny gem in the beautifully carved jewel of the medieval history of #Mandu in #Madhya Pradesh. The Hammam was a part of #Jahaz Mahal which was made to accomodate 15000 women which constituted the harem of Ghiyas-ud-din Khilji. Supposedly he was inspired by the Hindu God Krishna!<\/span> With a perimeter of 82 kms, Mandu fort is the biggest fort of India and the pieces of medieval history are strewn all around in the form of temples, mosques, palaces, pavilions. I wouldn’t be exaggerating if i call it our own ‘Machu Picchu’ – rather better than that. Only thing- we just do not care because its not ‘foreign’!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The guide told us to turn our camera into selfie mode. May be he wanted at least one pic with him in the frame-as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[189,300],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelogue","tag-mandu","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA quaint, sleepy , tiny hamlet amidst the Malwa plateau – Mandu fort-though not far from Indore- doesn’t see much tourists and that perhaps is the reason that it’s still clean and green.<\/span>
\nThe architecture of Jahaz Mahal which was named thus because it was surrounded by beautiful lakes on the three sides , giving the occupants of the palace the feel of a ship in the water-is a beautiful amalgamation of Afghan, Hindu, Mughal and even Roman styles. And of course the sound system too seemed far ahead of its time.<\/span>
\nMandu stands tall in the world of romance. Rani Roopmati Pavilion stands as a testimony to that. Baz Bahadur and Rani Roopmati’s story is perhaps one of the oldest love stories.<\/span>
\nToday Mandu can at best be called a ruined, uninhabited ,ancient city. Still it’s a place where history seems to be beckoning from close-very close proximity…the kinds which I have not experienced anywhere else. You can close your eyes and feel the swish of the expensive clothes, can hear the jingle of the bracelets and smell the fragrances metaphorically!<\/span>
\nA rendezvous with our own history-could there be a better way to rejuvenate the soul , to break free from the mundane!<\/span><\/p>\n