DESI DISCOVERY QUIZ 21

Clip 1 : Omkareshwar near Indore in MP

Clip 2: Marble Rocks near Jabalpur in MP.

Both are on the river Narmada.

For a water starved Tamilian from TN, the sights of Narmada flowing all over brings in signs of despair .

You might have seen the Marble rocks in the movie Asoka  & Mohenjadaro ( crocodile fight scene)

MP was a big state before being split up.   Omkareshwar is near the Indore side. Right on the other end - a good 550 KM away from Indore - lies which I would call the Jabalpur side

Jabalpur & the areas surrounding the borders of Maharashtra  has many popular tiger reserves ( wildlife reserves), including the ones where Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book was based on.  This is what takes the tourists & you there. Inexpensive & offbeat. Avoid the summers & winters, as the heat & cold can be severe.

Being at the heart of central India, you can notice the gradual transition from Maharashtrian to  North Indian cuisines .

Jabalpur has a gelatin factory, which uses bovine bones as the raw material to make gelatines that is used in making capsules, jelly, marshmelons etc.  The bones are soaked in Hydrochloric acid @ 4 deg centigrade & the resultant corrosion to the tanks gives me my vegan bread & butter.