ON MY STAY AT “THE GOLDEDN TULIP”, TIRUPATI (A.P.)

The Golden Tulip Tirupati

                                           

Deluxe with king size bed

                                              

                                        

Deluxe Room with three beds

                                                          

The Deluxe Suit

                                
                                     

Adayar Anand Bhavan the veg restaurant

                                   

The Function hall

                            

      

This is a four-star hotel situated near Nandi Circle in the heart of Tirupati at the foothills of Tirumala just opposite 100-feet by-pass road near Alipiri toll plaza. It has three floors with 88 rooms out of which five are suites, sixty-three are Deluxe rooms with king-size beds and twenty Deluxe rooms have separate twin beds. One can have a fine view of surrounding Tiurumala hills filled with greenery from this hotel.

This hotel belongs to Sarovar Hotels, India’s leading Hotel Chain, which has nearly 149 hotels in eighty-seven destinations across India, Nepal and Africa.

This hotel has all amenities and facilities such as 24-hour front desk service, free-parking, the speed internet, fitness center, T.V. minibar, locker facility, bottled water,  tea or coffee-maker, a refrigerator and blackout curtains, room service, dry cleaning and laundry service, lift, A.C., banquet hall, facilities for specially- abled people, complimentary breakfast, transfer and tour facility, a multi-cuisine international menu and a vegetarian restaurant along with coffee/ tea supply to the room.  

The” A2B Restaurant” on the ground floor is a pure vegetarian restaurant which offers South Indian, North Indian and Chinese dishes. In this hotel local people especially women from villages are specially trained and given employment and one feels very much impressed by their prompt service and courteous behavior.

 It has a spacious banquet hall within an area of 1400 sq.ft. with the main function hall with an area of 344 sq.mt. and is suitable for conducting weddings along with social and corporate meetings and functions. The rooms are elegantly designed with scenic view of Tirumala hills and greenery. The staff are professionally trained and very prompt and helpful with polite behavior.

The airport is nearly 20.6 kms and the Tirupati railway station is four kms from this hotel. Tirumala is twenty-one kms and Tiruchanoor is 3.5 kms from here. Kapilatheertham is within a walkable distance within one km.  Distance from this hotel to Sri Kalhasti is nearly 42 kms reachable within an hour and distance from here to Srinivasa Mangapuram is 19 kms only. One can also visit Kanipkam (68kms), a famous Ganesha temple in Chitoor District.

Check-in and check hours are from 12.00 pm to 11.am, and early check-in or late check-out are available at an additional cost. For tourists this hotel offers a comfortable stay with all modern amenities and the stay at this hotel gives a very memorable experience in a serene atmosphere.

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   21st July 2026                                    Somaseshu Gutala

The Dance Of death

 

                                   

                                                 

               

               1.    Under the eternal shades of sleep

              Under the graves buried so deep

              Transported to the world of death

              You lie; no grief, no pain; no disturbing breath.

 

             2.    I put an end to raging powers

              My might demolishes lofty towers;

              No beauty tempts my timely call

              No discrimination; I equalize all.

 

         3.           I terminate here miser’s greed

            I wind up here stern dogmatic creed;

            I break down here vile brutal lust

            I burn away all passions to dust.

 

      4.              With perfect cold equanimity

           With philosophic tranquility

           You lie, waiting for your future fate

           Like sages immersed in breathless state.

 

    5.                 Dwelling in another dimension

          Above the pull of earthly terrain

          Above the stress of sensual rut

          You lie like silent statues cut.

 

  6.          I play on your grey graves

         I leap on the grassy waves

         I kiss your icy lily lips

         I touch the shiny marble chips.

 

7.                     I dance on your static crowns

       I care not your frozen frowns;

       I sport with your muddy hair

       I pluck off roses red and fair.

 

8.                  I dance aloft like crackling fire

      Upon your bones with crimson spires;

      Your motives and cravings all I end;

      Your disparities all I mend.

 

9.              Ev’n God with meditative gaze

    Watches my playful destructive craze;

     I let loose souls from fleshy chains

     I liberate them from worldly pains.

10.      Though dreadful my actions may seem

    I work for all and I redeem

    Souls and make their onward journey clear

    Without rotting forever in stasis here.

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    12th July 2026                            Somaseshu Gutala

 

 

 

DRY HEART

                  

    

              

        

       

 

   1   My heart went suddenly dry

   My brain too is blank and dry.

   I can’t express my feelings straight

   Can’t find a way to choose lines right

   Just used to press the key to throw out

   Something easy and fine not thinking about

   For everything we depend on machines and AI

   We are too lazy and too busy even to try. 

 

2         Stopped even to think and look deep

 Too much vexed with problems, no time to sleep

 With made-easy solutions at hand to gain

 Why should I unnecessarily strain my brain?

 Too long engaged in turmoil and noise

 I have no time to listen to my inner voice

 I left the golden realm of fancy long ago

 I lost my artistic, spontaneous flow. 

 

3.   My eyes are dry with burning sensation slight

    They forgot to shed tears of joy and delight

    They can’t behold and respond to nature’s charms

    They can’t enjoy surrounding beauteous forms

    Staying in the world of machines they lost insight

    They can’t appreciate colorful Nature bright

    Our thinking power and feeling we delegate

    To machines and live in a simple, static state.

 

4        Have we bartered our soul to lifeless tools?

And dance to their routine commands and rules?

Our creative skills lost their role

Machines rule our minds and control

Our every act and thought in their ruthless grip;

We live like slaves under their dictatorship.

AI is the buzzword of the modern age

Man’s work made easy at every stage.

 

5        A miraculous invention to help mankind

     Endowed with intelligence and superfast mind.

The nearest replica of human brain

To discover Nature’s secrets and help man gain

Yet not an exact substitute for man

Man’s nature is too abstruse to scan.

Though it is an extension of man’s mind

It lacks human feelings liberal and kind.

 

6     This superintelligent device no doubt leads

    Man, to get his work done at superspeed

    And achieve progress and satisfy his needs

    Yet it can not replace man in every field;

    Too much dependence on AI poses major risks

    Machines misused leads to his downfall brisk

    Man’s innate skills become stunted and dry

     All his job opportunities gone; his talents die.

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     2nd July 2026                 Somaseshu Gutala