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  • 5 Destinations You Must Head to Taste Wine in India

    by Akash Khatri 5 Destinations You Must Head to Taste Wine in India 7 July 2022 FOOD Advertisement Advertisement Winemaking in India started around 5000 years ago! Yes, you read it correctly. Wine culture is as ancient as 5000 long years in India. Yet it is fascinating to see the craze about wine consumption amongst us even at the present day! Nashik is the Wine Mecca of India, if you are a wine lover then you must be aware of this fact! Now, let us jot down the top 5 wine vineyards of India that have grown over the years and attract a good number of wine lovers from across the country. Sula Vineyards (Nashik): This is a winery and a vineyard in Nashik which is located 180 km northeast of Mumbai. Rajeev Samant founded Sula Vineyards in the year 1999. One great thing about Sula vineyards is that they use grapes from their vineyards. Sula vineyard is beautifully spread over 2000 acres of land and it comes with restaurants, tasting rooms, amphitheatre, and spa in their resort. The resort was established in 2015! What does Sula vineyard offer you? You get to take a long tour at its’ Nashik vineyards and apart from tasting the different types of wine, you can also learn about the wine manufacturing methods and all along you get a wine expert to describe you the details. Grover Zampa Vineyards (Nandi Hills, Karnataka): Very recently two of the renowned vineyards merged namely Grover Vineyards and Vallee De Vin. This vineyard comes right after Sula vineyards. You can take a tour of this beautiful vineyard which is spread over 300 acres as well! There are wine tasting rooms, barrel rooms. They boast the international techniques of making wine and they believe that their wine is made of grapes which in turn depicts the terroir. They boast quality over quantity when it comes to wine production. Chateau d’Ori (Madhya Pradesh): This vineyard covers 200 acres of area and this vineyard is simply luxurious! It flaunts 3 man-made lakes for doing water sports, a luxury farmhouse with jacuzzi, swimming pools, and wine tasting lounges. One amazing factor about this vineyard is that they take the agenda of ‘save nature’ seriously and hence use windmills to generate power! Fratelli Wines (Maharashtra): Fratelli wines came into existence in the year 2007 and they exclusively manufacture Indian premium wines. This is India’s largest privately owned wine estate of 240 acres. This wine vineyard tour is going to be a treat to the eyes because it is compared with European vineyards with pleasant weather and a vibrant atmosphere. York Winery (Nashik): York winery is situated in Nashik and recently it has won many awards for bringing a few new varieties of wine. This winery offers a wine tasting room and restaurants where you can order the dishes that will complement the kind of wine you are willing to gulp down for the day! Now that you are having an exquisite list of wine vineyards, you can choose one (or maybe two) and head straight towards that vineyard and sip in some nice wine while watching sunsets. Cheers! #luxury #winelover #winetasting #vineyard #wine #grapes #winemaker SEARCH How was Chocolate Born FOOD Virgin Territory: These non-alcoholic thirst quenchers are mixologist approved FOOD Tasting the sunny side of Christmas: Christmas Cocktails FOOD 5 Destinations You Must Head to Taste Wine in India FOOD Breakfast – Don’t miss! FOOD POPULAR POSTS Advertisement Advertisement By Anushka Sharma 7-Day Anti-Inflammatory Meal Plan For Anti-Ageing That Actually Works Like Magic 5 April 2024 FOOD By Anushka Sharma The Mind-Blowing History Of Butter Chicken 27 March 2024 FOOD by Aishwarya Let’s talk about the alcohol brands owned by celebrities 2 November 2022 FOOD by Aishwarya Tasting the sunny side of Christmas: Christmas Cocktails 2 November 2022 FOOD RELATED POSTS

  • Wandering into the room of Virginia Woolf

    by Aparajita Jaiswal Wandering into the room of Virginia Woolf 1 June 2021 SOCIETY Advertisement Advertisement Reckoned as a feminist icon and literary genius, Adeline Virginia Woolf is best known for her novel “ Mrs Dalloway”, “To the lighthouse” and essay “ A Room of one’s own”. She was born in an affluent family with literary inclinations shaping her childhood and proclivity for reading and writing. Woolf began to write professionally in 1900 encouraged by her father Leslie Stephen. Her writing style is almost poetic, stream of consciousness of characters binding together the narrative. Like so many writers and artists she wasn’t famous during her lifetime and even several decades after her death. Her popularity rose to newer heights during the 1970s feminist criticism movement. She was a part of Bloomsbury group- a group of English writers, artists and philosophers in the early 20th century which was the hub of art, affairs and intellectual discussions. As Dorothy Parker quipped, “They painted in circles, lived in squares, and loved in triangles”. Viriginia Woolf is also known for her old school romance with her husband decorated with love letters and cute pet names, they called each Mandrill and Mongoose. Virginia was a champion of women equality and independence during her time and lived a life which was unconventional and revolutionary in a sense. One of her most famous longer essays “ A Room of One’s Own” was derived from two lectures she gave at Cambridge University. She talks about “ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”. She famously gave an analogy of Shakespeare’s sister who, equipped with the same genius could not be equally famous given the position of her gender. Virginia also talked about Bronte sisters, George Eliot and other women writers who wrote under pen names because that was the only way to move forward in the hallways of the literary world. Yet beneath this shy yet social beautiful writer is a sad woman who was sexually abused as a child and battled mental illness throughout her life. She had a mental breakdown on the death of her mother in 1895. It was the first of many more to come. Institutionalized many times, she attempted suicide and finally one morning in 1941, she filled her pocket with stones and drowned in a nearby river. Leaving behind a legacy of novels, diaries and letters, her life remains an enigma, much like her death. But Virginia, through her sad rebellion and constant musings, fills us with hope. Hope in the strength of good ideas to come forward, irrespective of gender and social circumstances and for us to be forbearers of a future more equitable than the past. SEARCH Women Empowerment A mere concept or a real Concern SOCIETY Looking Through The Excellence Of ‘Jaali’ Architecture SOCIETY Why the Gender Pay Gap is Wide and Disturbing SOCIETY Festival of Stones SOCIETY The Pygmalion Effect SOCIETY POPULAR POSTS Advertisement Advertisement By Rini Pathak A Glance In The Kshitij’23: A Euphoric Escapade 26 January 2024 SOCIETY By Rini Pathak Mithibai Kshitij: Epitome Of Diverse Social Cause Empowerment 24 January 2024 SOCIETY By Rini Pathak Breaking Barrier And Redefining Inclusivity Conduct Of Para Events: Shaping Of A Better Future By Mithibai Kshitij 19 January 2024 SOCIETY by Mudita Bagla Divorce - Not A Big Deal 24 January 2023 SOCIETY RELATED POSTS

  • Simulation Theory: What if we were just illusions?

    by Akash Khatri Simulation Theory: What if we were just illusions? 1 November 2020 SOCIETY Advertisement Advertisement What if our reality was just an illusion? What if our truths about existence are nothing but a myth? The universe is nothing but just a mirror facing another mirror! Like a dream inside a dream! “Simulation theory” is a current trending topic, many tags this as a conspiracy theory. The modern history of this mind-boggling theory started in the year 2003 with one publication by an Oxford Professor named Nick Bostrom and the paper that opened the gates of our curiosity regarding “Simulation theory” was “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation”? As per him, we are already in simulation, and with the possibilities of advances in virtual reality, we will (the simulated creatures) will create our own simulations and gradually the only civilization that will sustain would be simulated one! The three main points from his speech were: Civilization will come to an end before we get to the next level i.e. post-human level where we can create our own designed simulations. We developed the capability of creating “simulation”, but we decided not to use it yet, thinking (perhaps) that it is unethical or against the morality to do so! We are probably living in a simulation. In the recent era, many famous personalities have also become obsessed with the fact that maybe we are nothing but just fabricated or coded by super-human beings or super-coders who are monitoring every move of ours and to some extent controlling the way we are behaving! We are nothing but just a part of the virtual simulations in a mega computer! The Déjà vu we experience is nothing but just a glitch in the matrix or in simpler terms “coding errors”! Perhaps that is why sometimes we feel these uncanny eyes are following us or watching us out of nowhere! We cannot really find who is making us feel watched over, but we get the feeling for sure! Now let us talk about tech visionaries. Do they believe in this theory? The answer is YES! The tech visionaries and futurists do not believe in the old idea of Newton where they said that the creation of the Universe was simply by an accidental natural phenomenon. Most of today’s visionaries try to see the creation of the Universe as a simulation which was aided by super-intelligence. One of the quotes by Elon Musk regarding “Simulation Theory” that went viral was: “Given that we’re clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality and those games could be played on any set-top box or any PC, and there would probably be billions of computer or set-top boxes, it would seem to follow that the odds we are in base reality are one in billions.” But there are few scientists and techies who have totally dismissed the idea saying this whole theory is not even scientific in the first place! Why should we be bothered to know whether we are living in a simulation or not? Not only because people are crazily discussing about this topic lately but to know and acknowledge the truth! Why we should find out the real answer to this theory is to find out our realities so that we can survive if the need arises ever in the future! #Oxford #illusion #Simulationtheory #Reality #supercomputers #dejavu #Conspiracytheory #ElonMask SEARCH Women Empowerment A mere concept or a real Concern SOCIETY Looking Through The Excellence Of ‘Jaali’ Architecture SOCIETY Why the Gender Pay Gap is Wide and Disturbing SOCIETY Festival of Stones SOCIETY The Pygmalion Effect SOCIETY POPULAR POSTS Advertisement Advertisement By Rini Pathak A Glance In The Kshitij’23: A Euphoric Escapade 26 January 2024 SOCIETY By Rini Pathak Mithibai Kshitij: Epitome Of Diverse Social Cause Empowerment 24 January 2024 SOCIETY By Rini Pathak Breaking Barrier And Redefining Inclusivity Conduct Of Para Events: Shaping Of A Better Future By Mithibai Kshitij 19 January 2024 SOCIETY by Mudita Bagla Divorce - Not A Big Deal 24 January 2023 SOCIETY RELATED POSTS

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