At peace with history
Orchha Images of the fort / palace complex had had me keen on visiting Orchha since few years. My increasingly falling belief in long-term and detailed planning enabled me to land up at Orchha finally. As the tempo took me ( and 10 others ) from Jhansi, I noticed a board stating, ‘ Welcome to the town of Ram Raja’ . This is a place where the Lord is the King. Image Credit: Kumar Radhakrishnan Fort / palace complex At the fort / palace complex guides appeared like at other tourist places. What came to fore, what informed me of Orchha, was a question to a security personnel. Your small question has a longish answer he warned and gauging from my body language, went on. A guide or a scholar would have found it difficult to match the emotion and connect he brought in. It was his story as well. He also made me re-realize that small towns in my country are way different from its cities. A large proportion of people in these towns have their moorings and identities clea...