Travel and Tourism Notes

India is famous for its kind of festivals and fairs, most of the fair held in India are either religious fairs or celebration of change of seasons. Kolkata Book Fair is the world’s third largest annual conglomeration of books and world’s largest non-trade book fair. The famous Sonepur Cattle Fair near Patna is the biggest cattle fair in Asia and world’s largest animal fair. India is a land of fairs and festivals, every month there is festival with fair held at different regions of India, Some of the big religious fairs in India are Pushkar Fair, Baneshwar Fair Gangasagar Fair, Tarnetar Mela, Chaitre Chaudash mela, Nagaur fair, and many monsoon festivals or fairs. All   Indian fair   and festivals have lots of diversity according to the culture, life style, language, religion of each states and region, like Durga Puja (Navaratri) is major festivals of West Bengal, Ganapati in Maharashtra, also in the western and eastern parts of   India, Pongal in Tamilnadu, Onam in Ke

                                        Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi   (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was one of the first  South Asian  female physicians and the first Indian female physician, to be trained in the tradition of  Western medicine . She was the first female of Indian origin to study and graduate with a degree in medicine in the United States. She is also believed to be the first  Hindu  woman to set foot on American soil.  Along with  Kadambini Ganguly , she was one of the first two graduates from India. Early Life Anandibai was born as Yamuna, in  Kalyan   of the   Thane   district in present day   Maharashtra ), to an orthodox and wealthy   Marathi   Brahmin   family. Her family used to be landlords in Kalyan but lost their economic wealth. As was the practice at that time, Yamuna was married at the age of nine to Gopalrao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior, due to pressure laid by her family. After marriage, her husban