My Topic for Research

  True Heritage is that a culmination of all are heritage without any discrimination between caste,creed or religion.Sufism is a belief that brings together Hindus and Muslims.My topic for research is how did Sultan Garhi earn it's title as a Sufi shrine from being a simple tomb and why it has such a complexed architechtural style as I mentioned earlier.I hope that by doing substantial research and by help from my teachers I can achieve my target.

Visit to Aravali Biodiversity park and Sultan garhi

 On our second trip,we went to the aravali biodiversity park and Sultan garhi.At the Biodiversity park first we spoke to Dr.Hussain Shah who gave us a talk on ecological services and advantages of our biodiversity,which is the interaction of all living organisms with each other.In the end we saw a movie on butterflies and it's 17 features:

1. They pollinate 87% of all pollen grains on Earth.
2. Enables many smaller species to live and thrive.
3. One of the best pollinators
4. They can only see red,yellow,orange and green.
5. A few flowers can only be pollinated by them.
6. They are very delicate.
7. Most caterpillars are green and brown and they camouflage very well on plants.
8. Butterflies only land on bright colourful flowers.
9. They are very sensitive to pollution.
10. Help in bio-control of weeds.
11. Are killed by insecticides.
12. 18000 species worldwide.
13. 1501 species in India.
14. The park has recorded 95 species.
15. Part of food chain.
16. Mud Puddling-males sit on mud and suck up nutrients.
17. Only lays eggs on specific plants.

We then saw the butterfly park followed by the rainforest which is still in making.

Next we went to sultan garhi,the first tomb ever built in India,that of the son of Iltutmish,heir to the throne,Nasir-u-ddin Mahmudd,the governor of Lucknawti,who died in battle.It was built in 1213.
It has a very different architechtural style which is octagonal in shape,it has watch towers,pillars stolen from Hindu temples,mosque had place for shivling and kalash and there were squire domes.
It is an underground grave where the people are buried and now it is not only a sufi shrine for Hindus and Muslims but on a yearly basis hosts a big mela for eunuchs.
This trip was very interesting and I am dearly looking forward to many more trips in the future.