In the words of Ibn Battuta, travelling leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller. His wisdom teaches us that it is travelling that keeps our innate desires alive, waking up a world of words and images within us. It's when we traverse the boundaries of our hometowns, our states and our country, that we touch the lives of people we have never met. We then realise how small the world was for us before. Mankind's wanderlust that began many centuries ago was perhaps triggered by this realisation. Today, as we celebrate the National Tourism Day in the midst of the pandemic's third wave, it's time to reflect on how our ways of travel has changed. Tourists now travel not for leisure alone and are keen to explore the history, culture and the food diversity of places they ...
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Shooting of films at ASI monuments is going to become a bit easier, at least procedurally. Government is planning to decrease the permission time required for shooting. Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent charge) Prahlad Singh Patel in a virtual conversation with FICCI Frames said that there will be no need to wait longer for permission to shoot films in any of the monuments of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Patel said that film makers will get permission of shooting within 3 weeks after applying online on the ASI website. He said that this will not only promote the shooting of films in India but will also increase the popularity of Indian monuments. However, Patel urged film industry to shoot in less popular ASI monuments along with known ...
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