"A tribute to our Heroes of freedom struggle by NCC Cadets:A visit to heritage ”

JAI HIND,

BY.CDT Dhammadina Prabhakar Donde

MAH/19/SW/A/722731

1 MAH Girl’s BN NCC

Mumbai ‘B’ Group

NCC Army Girl’s Unit

NCC Unit of B.k.Birla college Arts, science and Commerce (Autonomous)

A visit to a historical place .

5 April 2021.

A visit to historical place is very happy experience.I wakeup very arly morning and get redy to go visit historical places of mumbai .I am very excited to visit the places. In covid situation. The journey began by meeting at kalyan station by “6:30am"

Our ANO suvarna Jadhav ma’am organize to visit the historical places in mumbai .such as Azad Maidan, kala Ghoda,Mani bhavan ect.Then we had to visit that our ANO ma’am,My senior and my collegus.

1st I visit to Azad Maidan. We go there and see the place it’s very beautiful &so many people are there we go there and stand properly Posters hold in their hand & Take the photographs AZAD MAIDAN (formerly known as Maidan)a triangulary-shaped maidan (sports ground) in the city of Mumbai, It is located on 25 acres of land near the Chhatrapati Terminus station. It is a regular venue for inter-school cricket matches. The name Azad means "liberty" in Persian. The ground is known for its cricket pitches, for protest meetings, and for political rallies, The Bombay Gymkhana clubhouse was built in 1875, at the southern end of the maidan

Then after we go to 2nd destination i.e KALA GHODA there we took many pictures with help of posters.

The name Kala Ghoda means Black Horse, a reference to the presence of a black stone statue of king Edward( as the then Prince of Wales) mounted on a horse that was built by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Albert Abdullah David Sassoon although this statue was removed from the precinct in 1965 and subsequently placed inside the Zoo. A local legend stated that the statues of King Edward and the one of Shivaji on a horse at the came to life after midnight and battled it out on the streets. In 2017, the 'Kala Ghoda' returned to the area with a new statue of a similar looking horse without a rider, being commissioned by the Kala Ghod Association.

The statue, titled 'Spirit of Kala Ghoda' was designed by architect Alfaz Miller and sculpted by Shreehari Bhosle. The Esplanade Mansion, India's oldest surviving cast iron building, is in Kala Ghoda. Formerly known as Watson's Hotel, it was the site where films were introduced to India with a screening of the lumiere Brothers Cinematograph in 1896. The offices of art publication, Marg, are on the third floor of the historic Army and Navy Building.

In the end we went to MANI BHAVAN which was the residence of the MAHATMA GANDHI . Clicks the pictures . Mani Bhavan (lit. 'Jewel House') is a museum and historical building dedicated to Gandhi, situated at Laburnum Road in the Gamdevi precinct of Mumbai. Mani Bhavan was the focal point of Gandhi’s political activities in Mumbai between 1917 and 1934.

Then we have a refreshments along with tea ending our tour we had a tune together, I enjoy the this journey learning many things and see the beautiful places in mumbai and I click some pictures.