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Haryana
There is no lake. Mining in the hills around it drained the embankment two decades ago and it has stayed dry since, so anyone arriving expecting water gets a…
Timing decides whether this is worth the drive. The reservoir at Sohna, in the Aravalli hills near Gurugram, is monsoon-fed — a trough at the foot of the…
Blackbuck, chital and sambar, on 19 hectares off the Hisar-Dhansu road, six acres of which grows their fodder.
An extinct volcano standing on its own at the north-western end of the Aravallis, 740 m above sea level and rising 345 to 470 m off the plain around it.
Haryana's most populous city is an industrial one first — tractors, motorcycles, switchgear, tyres, shoes, and henna out of the farmland around it.
Ninety per cent of the Yamuna leaves the river at this point, pushed into the Western and Eastern Yamuna canals; the remaining tenth carries on down the old…
A masonry weir on the Ghaggar-Hakra about eight miles out of Sirsa, thrown across a small lake called Dhanur and turning it into the sheet of water now known…
The shatavar it takes its name from is one of a long list of endangered ayurvedic plants growing across these 125 acres on the Hisar-Dhansu road.
Low hills — the average is 207 m — scattered around Tosham in a broken ring, which is what they are: the remnant outer rim of a collapsed volcanic chamber.
