History

The Awesome Takes Time: What the Golden Gate Bridge Teaches Us

September 1, 2016ByteSizearts, blogger, Blogging, bridge, character, culture, destinations, goldengate, Happiness, History, instapassport, instatravel, Life, Love, Metaphor, ordinary, peopleoftheworld, sanfransisco, soul, story, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, USA, visittheusa, wanderlust

It’s practically illegal to visit San Francisco and not post a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. Or so it seems, judging by the questions when you don’t! 😄

But beyond its stunning presence, this bridge is a lesson in persistence. Built in 1937, it didn’t just appear overnight. It took over a decade of battling opposition—financial worries, engineering doubts, even fears that it would ruin the bay’s beauty.

Today, those objections feel almost absurd, drowned out by its practical and symbolic value.

Because here’s the thing—the awesome doesn’t get built overnight. And most importantly, it doesn’t look awesome when it’s still in the mind.

So, what are you building? Keep going. The world may not see it yet, but one day, they’ll wonder how it ever wasn’t there.

The Lincoln Memorial Steps and a Speech That Changed the World

August 29, 2016ByteSizeabrahamlincoln, blogger, character, culture, destinations, dream, Happiness, History, ihaveadream, instapassport, instatravel, lincolnmemorial, Love, martinlutherking, memorial, Metaphor, peopleoftheworld, skyline, slaves, soul, story, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, USA, visittheusa, wanderlust, washingtondc

On August 28, 1963, standing on these very steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. A speech that didn’t just move America—it shook the world.

These steps have heard many voices, but this one stands out. King spoke not just to commemorate Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which freed millions of slaves, but to remind the world that freedom and justice are always unfinished work.

Some steps are just steps. Others lift humanity higher.

This is one such place.

The Sather Tower: Time, Legacy, and a Secret Inside

August 21, 2016ByteSizeberkeley, blogger, Blogging, California, campus, clocktower, culture, destinations, education, fossils, History, instapassport, instatravel, Life, Love, Metaphor, ordinary, peopleoftheworld, sanfransisco, story, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, ucal, USA, visittheusa, wanderlust

Every great campus has an icon, and at the University of California, Berkeley, the Sather Tower is impossible to miss. It dominates the sky, commands attention, and quietly watches over generations of bright minds passing through.

At 307 feet, it’s the third tallest clock tower in the world, but its real significance isn’t just its height—it’s the aspiration it represents. For decades, students have walked beneath it, dreamed beyond it, and carried its legacy forward.

And here’s a twist—it’s not just a timekeeper, it’s a time capsule. Hidden inside? A fossil collection from Berkeley’s Department of Biology, preserving life from long before 1914, when the tower was built.

It tells time. It stores time. And for many, it shapes lifetimes.

February 6, 2016UncategorizedArchitecture, aurangabad, battle, beauty, blogger, Blogging, contexts, fort, History, India, inspiration, instapassport, instapic, instatraveling, Love, maharashtra, monument, realtive, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, traveller

The Chand Minar, this is called. It reaches 210 ft and was originally covered with Persian glazed tiles.
All part of the Daulatabad fort complex. A fort that has never been taken! At the very top of this structure, there’s supposed to be a canon with an inscription “creator of storms”. Am not sure of the storm. But its a riot to the eyes and imagination. “ It draws its inspiration from the Qutub Minar’, our guide says in a hushed undertone. And I wonder why. As though the Chand Minar will feel bad when it hears this.
He is a silly wise man, I feel the Chand Minar will feel bad!
For the Chand Minar, looked at from its context is exquisite in itself. It is beautiful.
Absolutes are an opportunity to relish beauty in its full form. ‘Relative’s distort.

#Aurangabad #travel #traveller #India #Maharashtra
#India #traveladdict #travelblogger #Blogger #blogging #love #instatraveling #instapassport #instapic #fort #battle #architecture #monument #history #inspiration #beauty #realtive #contexts #beauty (at Daulatabad Fort, Daulatabad, Aurangabad)

February 5, 2016Uncategorizedaesthetic, Art, blogger, delhi, design, function, History, monument, newdelhi, qutub, qutubminar, Travel, travelblogging, traveller, victory

The Qutub Minar is tall. With a seeming rush to reach the sky. But when you stand at its base, you realise that the rush isn’t a compromise on aesthetic. Or design, for that matter.
Function needn’t be at the expense of aesthetic. A win is a win, but an elegant win stands tall.

Real tall.
#travel #qutubminar #qutub
#NewDelhi #Delhi #travelblogging #traveller #design #art #history #monument #Blogger ##aesthetic #function #victory (at Qutub Minar)

January 12, 2016UncategorizedArchitecture, Art, aurangabad, Ellora, History, India, maharashtra, Travel, travelblogger, travelblogging

Between the 5th and the 10th century, the Ellora emerged. Cut out from rocks and sculpted to perfection.

What tools did they use? What motives did they have? And more importantly, what were the men and women who walked the Earth at that time, made of?

#Ellora #aurangabad #history #Maharashtra #India #architecture #travel #travelblogging #travelblogger #art #architecture

January 8, 2016UncategorizedArchitecture, fatherofnation, gandhi, History, Madurai, mahatma, mahatmagandhi, palace, Travel, travelblogging

Some structures hold more than they proclaim to go hold. This is the Gandhi museum in #Madurai
An erstwhile sprawling symmer palace of Rani Mangammal, holds the memory of a simple man!
#Travel #travelblogging #Mahatma #Gandhi #MahatmaGandhi #FatherofNation #architecture #palace #history

December 11, 2015Uncategorizedarchives, blogger, champselysées, europe, france, History, monuments, paris, storytelling, Travel, travelblogger

There are images. And there are vivid images. Sometimes you don’t want to hear any words. For the image is suffice. This was one such. At the Champs Elysée, Paris.

#travelblogger #travel #Blogger #Paris #champselysées #monuments #history #storytelling #Europe #france #archives

December 1, 2015Uncategorizedagra, blogger, History, India, Love, monuments, Taj, tajmahal, Travel, travelblogging, traveler

The Taj Mahal, Agra. Inspiration to many. A thing of beauty to several others. A symbol of love to lots. And a treasure trove for Agra!
Whichever angle you look at it from it offers on a palette a set of attributes for the average photographer to choose from.
Some monuments stand out in being something to everyone. To me, the Taj is one such.

#TajMahal #Taj #Agra #India #travelblogging #travel #traveler #blogger #history #monuments #love (at Taj Mahal)

November 30, 2015Uncategorizedblogger, church, Goa, Green, History, India, portugese, Roadtrip, Travel, travelblogging, traveler

Goa. From a while ago. We took to driving through some treacherous roads and suddenly this church presented itself to us.

Suddenly. Simply. Completely. We just had to park the car, get off to stand and stare! It was insanely satisfying.

#Goa #traveler #travelblogging #Blogger #travel #India #portugese #church #history #green #roadtrip