Indian Queen of Melody Lata Mangeshkar
was born in Indore
Famous singer cum actor Kishore Kumar was
a student at Christian College, Indore
Famous painters M.F.Hussain and N.S.Bendre
spent some years in Indore studying art with Vishnu Deolalikar.
Bada Ganapati in Indore is considered to
be the largest (permanent) Ganesh idol in the world.
Rajwada at Indore is the only existing
seven storied entrance of a palace.
Sudarshan Chakra of tabla is supposed to
be an Indore invention.
Indore became the capital of Holkar state
only after it became a British protectorate.
Maharani Ahilya Bai Holkar supposedly came
to Indore only twice : In her first visit, the city was looted and in the
second visit there were riots.
The gates of Lalbagh Palace, Indore, are
replica of the gates of Buckingham Palace, London. They were cast in iron
in England and then shipped to Indore.
Like the Pandhari temple at Pandharpur
(Maharashtra) on the bank of Chandrabhaga river, Indore too has a Pandhari
temple at Pandharinath on the bank of Saraswati river where it is referred
to as Chandrabhaga due to its crescent shape.
Indore has a huge concrete Cricket Bat
statue with names of the players of the Indian team which won the 1971 series
against Gary Sobers' West Indies team. There many not be many of its kind
in the world !
Indore's Nehru Stadium became the first
cricket ground in India where an international cricket match had to be abandoned
due to bad pitch.
2coolindore
. 2001