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A Letter

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Dear Racquet, I was quite reluctant when we started. You, a long shaft with an oval header, Me, a fat head, fashioned in feathers. Amazed by your rudeness, I clenched myself into a struggle, and Be in the game, the fight, the juggle. But this game, a great gambler, Turned my ramblings into cold cinders. They say you are mean, They call you ignorant, but, I swear to God, you're a beauty With your aura, an enchantment. Your tough look, I can bear it all. Your sleek style & your patience A wonderful sprawl. So no matter how hard you hit me I'll keep coming back to you. Every time you knock me down, I fall & I'll keep falling for you. Our match is a mismatch, They say we can't be together. I am wounded when I'm smashed Through your mesh as hard as leather. But no third line toss  Can blow my love in the air, I can land perfectly in your tensed strings & let your hit be fair. Neither you can a

The Lakshmi Narayan Temple Complex, Chamba: Reflection of Divinity by Architecture

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Resting in the rush of the gifted settlements by the river 'Ravi', the Lakshmi Narayan Temple Complex has been radiating sanctity over the 'Chambyals' since heaps of centuries. The Nagara style in which the temple has been achieved dates to the good old Indo-Aryan style of Orissa. While many of the attributed components of a typical Nagara style temple such as Ardhamandapa (Entrance Hall), Mandapa (Hall), Mahamandapa (Great Hall), Antarala (Vestibule) are observed to have been omitted, the Adhisthana (Base Platform), Urushringa (Secondary Tower), Garbhagriha (Inner Sanctum), Shikhara (Central Tower) are the constants. The wooden umbrella roof itself marks distinction holding the Amalaka (a stone disk) crowned with the Kalasha (Finial) on its top and responds to the local climatic behaviour. Floor communicates by adding kinds of ascends in the movement and likewise, the temples appear in a progression. LAKSHMI NARAYAN TEMPLE COMPLEX, CHAMBA What seize away the bli